Mikumiotics, study of the meaning of Miku

me, three minutes into the first episode:

Like these people don't exist, this post fully made up a non-existent group of "binary trans people" because they would show their whole ass if they said "tme/tma is a regressive binary"

and there are going to be plenty of people who look at this and go, "oh, yeah, caitlyn jenner and buck angel" and it's entirely possible that's who OP meant

and...there are also a lot of people who apply this to all "binary" trans people and ignore the second half of the statement or think that literally Just Existing is somehow shaming non-binary folks

Like, I don't think we can have any version of this discussion without acknowledging that the Jenners and Angels and Brianna Wus exist -- but they're not harmful because of being binary, they're harmful because of how actively and maliciously they try to enforce that binary and gatekeep other trans people. Which is, IMO, the semiotic thing missing here, that the gatekeeping is the problem and not how "revolutionary" someone's identity is, but this sentiment is also a direct consequence of that gatekeeping

The screenshotted post is alluding to transfeminists who use TME/TMA to describe their oppression. That is why the OOP is using the word 'binary' like. I kinda see where you are coming from, but you assume more good faith on the OOP's behalf than they probably deserve.

There are a lot of TME queer&trans people who really don't like being told that they are TME, and they also don't like being told that a trans woman shaving her body, wearing makeup, and wearing a dress is still more transgressive(and therefore more marginalized) than the most 'genderfuckiest' tme person.

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.

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.