it's just a hyena :)

Cloven-feathered Dove (Drepanoptila holosericea), family Columbidae, endemic to New Caledonia

Though people associate it with very old science fiction, you won't see any occurrence of the term in its current meaning (a human inhabitant of the planet Earth, as opposed to an extraterrestrial) prior to 1949.

Actually, the term was first used by the Old Man himself, Robert E. Heinlein, in his 1949 novel "Red Planet" (a novel remembered for a weird digression where they explain the ethics of adults responsibly allowing children to carry loaded firearms). This all the way back when the Old Man was not quite so old yet, when RAH was actually a hotshot young lion looking to make a name for himself in the pages of the greatest scifi pulp of them all, Astounding Science Fiction under John W. Campbell, right at the dawn of the Golden Age of Science Fiction.

Heinlein created the term Earthling and used it in a lot of his work instead of human because it was very important to distinguish in his stories between humans from Earth and, say, colonists of human stock from Mars, like in Podkayne of Mars. Hello, Mars used another interesting term with the same origin, where humans born in space referred to humans that lived their entire life on earth (semi-derogatorily) as "groundhogs."

The term caught on because Heinlein used it in his juveniles (what today we'd call "young adult" books), and to every generation prior to the Millennials, Heinlein was THE science fiction writer, much like how Agatha Christie is THE mystery author. It's a strange irony that, now that young adult books run the world, the young adult scifi author has mostly vanished from prominence.

Prior to 1949, scifi writers used a lot of other variant terms for humans from Earth. E.E. Smith, who Heinlein admired and listed as his single biggest influence (and from who Heinlein got the idea of space marines in power armor, an idea the Old Man used in Starship Troopers), used the term Tellurian to refer to humans from Earth in the Lensman novels, as Earth in his future era was known as Tellus, an erudite term for a god of Earth in Greek Myth used in Hamlet. Humanoids in the Lensman series were known as "Tellus-type lifeforms."

(You know, I feel like Tellurian for human and Tellus for Planet Earth should make a comeback.)

when considering the sexual violence against trans women, it's important to remember that "people only view us sexually" does not mean the same thing as "people only find us attractive". it means "people can only conceptualize of our existence within a sexual light" because that's how the majority of our coverage in media has been tinged in the past century. as a result of the chaste and patriarchal nature of modern capitalism, gender and sexuality are inseparable in much public discourse by virtue of propaganda, and as a result, a trans woman is seen as sexual because efforts towards projecting specifically femininity is only categorized as sexual. and when paired with the uncharitable perception of "man", that propaganda can often evolve how people view us directly into "sexual threat" anywhere, for any reason. i could be in the freezer aisle of costco looking down at the ground while i push my cart and i'd still get dirty looks for wearing a dress (this has happened).

when i say "they're either jerking off or sharpening a knife", i mean we're either viewed sexually, or as sexually threatening, in almost all scenarios.

But online as a musician, especially when I get reviewed (good or bad) or somebody mad at met for whatever reason, it's they/them almost every time. A lot of my past lyrics deal with transness very centrally - but the 'trans' part of my lyrics started overriding all other aspects for cis people. One example: somebody gave a shout out of for The Origin of my Depression and she/her'd me in a list of top experimental records. One of the comments was like 'how dare you not mention she is trans, its pretty important for understanding the record?' However, I don't necessarily want people to know I am trans 24/7, I think cis people get depressed too! I genuinely think despite the 'empathy gap' cis and trans people have a lot more in common than the former would like to admit. But also I am a woman! I feel like I get interpellated as trans against my will in TME 'woke' spaces. And even when they review my solo releases. It's why I have SHE/HER ONLY ANYTHING ELSE IS MISGENDERING everywhere. It's almost as if these so-called allies subtly third-gender us to A) virtue signal as 'transfem allies' via disrespecting how we conceive ourselves B) have TERF brainworms and thus need to segregate us by ASAB and ignore our lived experience and self-perfection and C) usually-AFAB people in particular who have been traumatised by men/hated being a woman or hate being one currently who cannot fathom why we would 'choose' to be women/transfeminine given patriarchal violence (using the transphobic assumption that it is a choice) and thus think we have prurient motives for transitioning. The other thing is because I pass and dress a little alt, they think I am they/them NB and people are too lazy to, well, look at my wikipedia page. But this is still a form of transmisogyny - "oh this person passes as a woman - and since I can always tell somebody's ASAB - because of the alt aesthetic + passing = NB AFAB. Believe it or not, trans women can look like women too. My correct pronouns are literally on all my social media. It's really not hard. It takes seconds to check. It goes to show that cis women who like being women tend to be consistently less transmisogynistic, as they have worked through their own internalised misogyny. The same applies to TME trans people generally, irregardless if they actually are women or not - a transmasc might also be confused by transfemmes if he hasn't learnt to love his own masculinity and work through his own misogyny. But yeah, I am lucky that I feel validated and genuinely like a woman IRL. My parents treat me like a daughter, my brothers treat me like a sister, and my friends like a woman. It's how I like things being.