i dont remember who first pointed it out but there's a post that's essentially that... the goal of transmisogyny is not always just an eradication of the transfem, but to give tme people access to the transfem as a fundamentally helpless person. the threat is not the life of an individual transfem- although that can be discarded on a whim- but the transfem community. the threat is trans women finding each other, creating a science to describe and share the ways we are mistreated, supporting each other and finding support in sympathetic and educated tmes. the goal is to have the transfeminized person- the lost confused vulnerable "boy"- isolated and desperate. for her to be a well of labor; artistic, emotional, organizational, domestic, or sexual. for her to be a well of this labor until you are done with her and she can be safely and cleanly discarded with no guilt and no loss of social standing.
and once you see it, so much starts to make sense. the attempt to erode language like tme/tma, which allows transfems to discuss their oppressors, or language like trans women, which allows transfems to unify and understand themselves as victims of misogyny. the proliferation of the femboy- an alternative identity for the young transfeminized person, one that is centered around looking skinny and pretty and being sexually available. and attempts to target and remove trans women from their community- to destroy the transfem community on tumblr, to isolate and punish trans women from their irl support groups. even the public mockery of transfemininity, the jokes on television, the insults boys fling at each other to assert that to be transfeminized is to be less than worthless.
this is the arc of transmisogyny. this is what is expected of us, the status quo that all this violence is committed to enforce.
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