i've got some serious issues w the larger transfeminist community & space on here i'll be honest. and it is hard for me to talk about because not only do i feel the need to be very precise and clear with my words, but also there is enough opposition to transfeminism already that im afraid my words will be twisted for use against the movement as a whole. it feels difficult & dangerous to talk about issues w this community on here.
i think the 'transfeminist' space on here is.. unprincipled, for lack of a better word. you will advocate against harassment, against alienation, for the assuming of good faith, etc., but really only for girls who you see as likeable, for girls who are agreeable. you will discuss an element of transmisogyny while being blind to or perpetuating the same pattern in your own spaces.
transfeminism should not be empty words. you are a fucking hypocrite if you consider yourself a part of this movement yet utilize transmisogyny against other transfems.
there is no transfeminism without intersectionality, without principle, without solidarity. humble yourselves. understand your positionality in all of this and where you hold power. stop being a hypocrite and educate yourselves. the amount of racism & ableism left unchecked in these spaces is sickening. put in the fucking work.
transfeminism is, i mean this entirely seriously, dead in the water as a movement without intersectionality. this shit can't continue.
Im gonna be very blunt here because this is a very white and US-centric site: even as transfeminists yall gotta actively seek and destroy your internalized white supremacy, fascist propaganda, and homonationalism because those are the things you’ll routinely betray transfeminism and your fellow trans women over.
The woman who introduced me to transfeminism and who I still hold up many of the transfeminist ideals she taught me, threw me under the bus because when I confronted racism and ableism in our group of transfeminists, she chose white solidarity over commitment to transfeminism.
And shit like this isn’t just happening, it’s COMMON because so many are so desperate for power in a world that takes it from us that they refuse to willingly hold back from using the tools of white supremacy, fascism, empire, against other transfeminists the moment it becomes convenient enough or they hate someone enough.
You have to fucking sit there and actually interrogate your actions and choices as you make them. Yes. This is uncomfortable. Yes, we’re all mentally ill and traumatized. Sometimes we’ll fuck up and lash out or intentionally make choices to harm others, but instead of running from what we have actually done, we MUST be able to take the L and address it when it is brought to us in good faith.
You cannot keep separating your actions and your self in your mind. You cannot keep making excuses or exceptions to your ideals. You have to start looking at what you do and go “is this actually fully in line with what I believe and how I want the world to treat us?” And if it’s not, FUCKING CHANGE.
