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Oh but "everyone is subjected to transmisogyny" (according to tMRA chuds, not my roommate), right?

This is the point of TME/TMA. This is why non-transfeminine people aren't subjected to transmisogyny.

Last week I was at a meetup where I was the only transfem. I checked the groupchat when I arrived and there was a message from the organiser: "We have a newcomer called X, can you look out for him if you get there first?" I located X, introduced myself, sent a message to the chat say, "I have located X," and continued to talk to him until the organiser arrived. When the organiser arrived, she was not happy with me. It turned out my phone had autocorrected, "I have located X," to, "I had located X," which the organiser interpreted as me passive aggressively telling her that I had already done the thing she was asking about. Her conclusion: I was unreasonable and aggressive in responding to her reasonable request. My explaining what had happened didn't convince her otherwise.

A different occasion last week: in a local trans groupchat, a trans man sent a link to a drag event happening in our town. A few people said they were already going, some said they might go. Then a trans woman replied saying, "Thanks, but I don't really like drag." Her tone was immediately called into question. Her words were assumed to communicate: "I think you are a terrible person if you like drag," even though she never said that. Several non-transfems who had never even heard that drag might not be universally-beloved by everyone were upset to discover that fact. A trans woman simply saying she didn't like this thing became A Big Deal.

Meanwhile, at a different event again, a trans man told a group that he was straight and attracted to women, but he wouldn't feel comfortable bringing home an "AMAB woman" (yes he actually said that). It was quickly brushed over, and after he had left even trans women tried to defend him by saying "he probably didnt realise people would be offended" etc etc. In contrast to the examples above, he is not even aware that anyone was upset by what he said, never mind worrying about what consequences he might face.

Accept that transmisogynised people are hurt daily by those who are not transmisogynised. Period. The girls are allowed to be fucking exhausted by it and if you can't see WHY, if you must argue "but what about these marginalized people in this identity??", then you've already lost the plot.

What about the people they (TME people) are HURTING? Why are TMA people not allowed to express their frustration and pain? Why do the feelings of trans and nb people who stand to gain socially from hurting trans women matter more than the feelings of trans women? Why do they constantly become the priority?

(asked January 24)

The DPRK does not forbid emigration outright. DPRK citizens can leave the country legally provided they follow the proper procedures. There is no internationally recognized nation that does not enforce some restrictions on emigration, typically requiring at the very least the presentation of a passport at designated border crossings. That said, it is true that emigration is restricted much more heavily in the DPRK than in most nations.

However, the context is important. The DPRK remains at war with the ROK and the US; while a ceasefire has remained in effect since 1953, no peace treaty has ever been signed. The DPRK has been placed under an effective siege for decades due to US-led international sanctions, and it is illegal under these sanctions for any person holding DPRK citizenship to earn money abroad (although this is enforced more in certain countries than in others, and plenty of DPRK citizens work abroad, usually in Russia or China). Furthermore, if a DPRK citizen were to emigrate to the ROK, the only other Korean-speaking nation, the ROK government would likely forbid them from returning to the DPRK if they so chose. There are in fact multiple DPRK emigrants living in the ROK who have been prevented from returning despite requesting permission to do so. One such woman, Kim Ryeon-hui, recounts in the documentary Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul how she has been denied a ROK passport for years due to her desire to return to her family in the DPRK, to the point of having attempted suicide.

green is entry without visa, blue is visa on arrival, red is pre-approval for a visa which can vary from possible but tedious to defacto impossible

here is the DPRK compared to China, Canada, US, and UK respectively

this shows countries own rules and acceptance of the relevant passport, not the rules said country has placed own their own citizens. you can read the full list of each country on the site yourself

Id also highly encourage anyone curious about the topic to look up their own country's rules on not only the DPRK passport, but on their own citizens travel to the DPRK. In the US for example, it is illegal for citizens to visit the North, while you can go there more or less just fine, because they don't have rules against US citizens (though you might be seriously questioned), if you return you can be imprisoned with a felony and will certainly be blacklisted from further travel with your passport revoked

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