Haven’t kept up with your posts, but I’ve been following you for quite some time as I liked your Dragon HRT comics back during my early days of transitioning. And I just want to let you know, one trans fem to another, that I’m disappointed to see you participate in the ace discourse esk trans masc exclusionist rhetoric that’s plagued this site as of recently. I don't know if any of this will convince you, but I implore you to read doubleca6t's post commenting on this discourse
https://www.tumblr.com/doubleca5t/816429361072881664/there-is-something-personally-offensive-to-me
I’ve mainly seen the TMA/TME stuff used to justify excluding enby and trans masc folks from the community, which directly weakens us when we’re actively being persecuted by transphobic governments who don’t fucking care if we’re TMA or TME. They just see we're trans and that's it. The patriarchy is not trans inclusive, and transphobia directed at trans men often involves infantilising them as “deceived woman tricked into transitioning.” Trans men can’t fully benefit from male privilege if transphobes (AKA, the people in power,) don’t believe that trans men are men.
Like it's shooting us in the foot when TERF island is being funded by Joanne and the Republican party desperately wants us fucking dead. But instead we're treating trans men as an "oppressor class" whose the real threat, and not the transphobes who want us both dead? Like I'm sorry but I'm just so disappointed seeing you participate in rhetoric that damages any attempts at solidarity. The person who coined the term trans-misogyny even actively rejects the idea that trans men are "privileged."
https://www.juliaserano.com/av/Serano-ArticulatingTransmisogyny.pdf?ref=blog.potate.space (Page 71-72)
I don't even know if this will convince you. (It probably won't because people don't change their minds.) But seeing people who try and defend trans men's place in the community get harassed and falsely flagged anti-trans on Shinigami Eyes makes me scared to interact with anyone who participates in this discourse. Understand how this looks to any trans person who's not into online discourse seeing all this self destructive infighting and harassment. It scares us and it scares me.
Why would I take anything you said and that link in good faith when you both threw the classic "terminally online crazy man-hating bitch" strawman like anyone else?
If you can't look past a few people weaponizing the terms TME/TMA and engage with actual transfeminism, I don't trust you on other kind of activism, they're all probably too angry and divisive for you. It's a pretty easy red flag to notice, and to put on Shinigami Eyes.
Anyway you claim you enjoyed my comics, and like, do you think they come in a vacuum? These comics come from my experience as a Woman who is Also Trans. If I played by your bad-faith book, I could read your ask as a "shut up and draw". You don't want me to talk about politics, you want nice feel-good entertainment, you want my content without my existence, like any good transmisogynist.
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