Aster

Because I think we do need a feminist movement that focuses on trans people!

All trans people!

And creating a system like TMA and TME is such a bullshit and unhelpful way to do that

Like "yes we will put everyone into two boxes, "good oppressed real trans woman" and "evil malfunctioning women who we all hate and deserve to be murdered with guns". This system is very progressive and feminist and accounts for all trans people. If you have any issues with it then you are an evil transphobic misogynist who clearly hates all trans women."

For example: if a trans woman says that the alt-right wants trans women dead, and a trans man pipes up that the alt-right wants trans men detransitioned, the trans man is inevitably told that he is still privileged, because merely being detransitioned is better than being dead. The fact that he could live at all in this scenario is a privilege trans men have over trans women.

And yet, when trans men point out that abortion bans could kill them, as pregnancy is quite literally a life-threatening event, trans women can say "this affects us too- someone could babytrap us!" and that is seen as enough to prove that trans men aren't actually the ones suffering from abortion bans more. The fact that trans women do not face any threat to life after being babytrapped is NOT seen as a privilege. And if you do succeed in making them drop the babytrapping issue, they'll instead say that they could be forced to detransition on the grounds that a child, quote, "needs a mother and a father." And here, detransitioning while staying alive is suddenly, magically, not a form of privilege held over someone who could die.

“Huh,” said Dad very casually. “Did you get charged for it?” 

I spent the next five minutes checking my bank account and came back into the living room to announce, “No, I didn’t. Do you think it’s a mistake? But it has my name on it! what does this mean”

It was around the time that I started to sound panicked that Dad confessed to buying it for me (“I didn’t realize the mystery of it would be so terrifying”). Which was very, very sweet and slightly unfortunate because yesterday I purchased a replacement kindle for myself. 

“But who would do this?” she said to my father who said he was sure he had no idea. “A student? A stranger? Someone who broke into my car to steal it but felt bad about how dirty it was? WHO??”

Eventually Dad was like, “Honey. It was clearly me.”