Hey OP, this is a good list!
To add to this, here are some additions and corrections:
White Surpremacy/Nazi-dog whistles:
it's actually "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles" - this is the first line of the so-called "Deutschlandlied". The Deutschlandlied as a whole is also used by Nazis. (Sidenote: the third stanza of the Deutschlandlied serves as the national anthem of Germany and is fine on its own. But the first two stanzas are only sung by Nazis.)
18 - code for "Adolf Hitler"
88 - code for "Heil Hitler"
The Sig-rune (a bastardisation of the Sowilo-rune ᛋ, where the rune is shifted to look like an S or a lightning bolt. Two Sig-runes together form the symbol of the Waffen-SS.)
The Sonnenrad/sun wheel (basically a Hakenkreuz but round instead of a square)
The Black Sun-symbol (a sun wheel, but with twelve arms)
basically all other runes are also used as dog whistles (but not every usage is a dog whistle, of course)
pseudo-Viking-imagery (not everyone who is interested in Vikings is a Nazi, but Nazis really love pretending that Vikings are their Aryan ancestors)
regarding the usage of European mythology: It really depends on who is using it and why. It's usually white people from Western Europe (Germany and everything west of it) and North America, who use these mythologies for their nationalist myth-making. That national myth-making is usually achived by removing these mythologies from their roots and whitewashing them, without any regard or respect for the anchestors of the people who created these legends. Often while simulteaneously being incredibly racist towards said anchestors, who are often treated as non-white (especially in the case of Southeastern and Eastern Europeans.)
Gender Related dog whistles:
TIF/TIM - the acronyms for "trans-identified female/male"
FTM/MTF(*) - These are terms that originated within the trans community and are still in use as such. However, TERFs have appropriated these terms and use them to call trans men female(s) and trans women male(s).
AFAB/AMAB(*) - These terms were originally created to discuss how intersex people are affected by gender assignment. By now, the terms have spread within the trans community (and beyond) and are often misused to refer to biological sex. TERFs use these terms to call trans men female and trans women male.
"sex based rights" and "sex based oppression" - originally coined by second wave feminists. Has been used in transphobic feminist theory since at least the 1990s. TERFs have used it as a transphobic dog-whistle since at least the 2010s.
"sex based reality", "erasing sex" and "sex is real" - more language used by TERFs to center biological sex as the sole root of gendered oppression.
"LGB", "LGB without the T" - an attempt made by transphobes to separate trans people (and the rest of the LGBTQIA+ acronym) off from LGB. Classic devide-and-conquer tactic.
"Queer is a slur" - used by TERFs to argue that ony gay men and lesbians are allowed to reclaim the slur, because trans people were supposedly not targeted by that slur
"cis is a slur" - used by transphobes to reject the usage of the term "cis"
Transgender ideology/theology - used to present transness not as a fact of live but as an ideology/religion
Trans Rights Activist (TRA) - acronym used by TERFs to compare trans people to MRAs, to accuse them of being misogynisitic predators in order delegitimize the fight for their rights (Men's Rights Activists - a misogynistic hate movement created to oppose feminism.)
Trans Men's Rights Activists (TMRA) - acronym created to compare trans men to MRAs to accuse them of being (trans)misogynistic predators in order to delegitimize the fight for their rights (I don't know who coined that term, but it's used in the same way as TRA is used by TERFs)
calling women "female"(*) - MRAs and incels love to call women "females", because it allows them to reduce them to their reproductive capabilities and dehumanize them. TERFs love to call women "females", because it allows them to reduce them to their reproductive capabilities, which they then use to exclude trans women.
Femoid/foid - 4chan-speak, slur used to demean women.
Moid - 4chan-speak, same slur like foid, but for men.
Passoid - 4chan-speak, slur for a passing trans person.
Pooner - 4chan-speak, slur for non-passing trans men. (Poon = vulgar slang for vagina)
Theyfab - slur used to demean non-binary people who were assigned female. Is now also used to demean trans men.
Theymab - slur used to demean non-binary people who were assigned male.
Transtrender - transmedicalist slur for non-binary/gender-diverse people and for trans people who do not (for whatever reason) medically transition
transsexual(*) - old term that was used to refer to trans people before "transgender" became more common. Some trans people still use the term to refer to themselves, but the term should not be used to refer to others without their consent. TERFs use the term to paint trans people as deviant predators. Transmedicalists use the term to reinforce the belief that only trans people who (want to) medically transition are really trans and that everyone else is a faker.
cissexual - used by transmeds to reclassify certain trans people (especially non-binary/gender-diverse people and people who do not medically transition) as cis, in an effort to push them out of the trans community. Often used in conjunction with the accusation that non-binary/gender-diverse people and trans people who do not medically transition are harming transexuals and preventing transsexuals from being accepted by cis people
female privilege - a misogynistic myth that claims that cis women actually have privilege over and oppress cis men. (Sidenote: because this myth was coined by misogynistic and transphobic cis men, they did not use the term "cis", but that's what they meant.) Important features of this myth are the beliefs that cis women are privileged, because
- because they receive justice for sexual harassment and violence and men don't (This should go without saying, but they fucking don't. The conviction rates for rapists are abysmal across the board. Most cis women who got raped don't even report their rapes, because the potential harm and danger they would face for it far outweighs the benefits)
- because they supposedly can harm men by falsely accusing them of being rapists (Again, the conviction rates for rapist are abysmal. Most rape-victims who report their rapes suffer further victimization at the hand of the police and the justice system and/or social consequences for supposedly damaging the reputation of their rapist. This is especially true for victims whose rapist belongs to the same social circle as them. And most rapists do.)
- they benefit from anti-discrimination measures
- benefit from social norms, that require men to pay for dinners, making gifts, opening doors, being "nice", etc.
- don't have to work and can stay at home, and because they aren't targeted by drafts/conscriptions for war
- because they have access to rape shelters that are funded by the government
- because they are favored in child custody battles
- because they can wear trousers/pants, but men can't wear skirts (as if that isn't a right, feminists have fought for literal fucking decades. And as if that isn't a right that only applies in regions where that fight was successful and even then is usually restricted to feminine clothing with a masculine-like cut and no pockets)
- because they supposedly can use their womanhood to deflect harm and make the oppression they face go away (they can't. If they could, misogyny would not exist.)
- because they can harm men by withholding sex
AFAB privilege - the same as female privilege, but now trans people who were AFAB are actively included in the list of oppressors, while trans people who were AMAB are centered as victims of that oppression. The arguments are pretty much the same, including the claims that trans people who were AFAB are privileged because:
- they supposedly experience less sexual harassment and violence, and can receive justice for the harassment/violence they do experience by highlighting their female-ness. (Both claims are wrong. Trans people experience very similar rates when it comes to the risk of sexual violence, with non-binary people who were AFAB being among the most affected. However, the biggest factor in this is race, not gender.)
- they supposedly benefit from support systems for women, including rape shelters and AFAB-only spaces like housing (They don't. To access these spaces, they are regularly forced to detransition. Trans men who benefited from anti-discrimination measures, when presenting as cis women, will often lose access to these measures when they come out and start transitioning.)
- Masculinity is supposedly always rewarded. Which is why they are allowed to wear masculine clothing, while people who were assigned male at birth are punished for wearing feminine clothing (Again: That's a right, feminists have fought for and it only helps people who live in regions where that fight was successful. And even in these regions, there this often only allows for feminine clothes with more masculine cuts. Masculinity is only rewarded in people assigned male. Claiming that it is rewarded in people assigned female - when feminists fought and bled for that - is erasing feminist history and deeply misogynistic.)
- they supposedly can use their AFAB-ness to deflect harm and make the oppression they face go away
TMA/TME - "TME" means "transmisogyny exempt". It does not mean "people, who do not experience transmisogyny". It means "people who are exempt from experiencing transmisogyny and therefore can't experience it".
To be very blunt here: This is not how bigotry works.
Oppression almost always targets not just the out-group (that is, the oppressed group), but also the in-group (that is, the privileged group). This is done to reinforce the separation of both groups and to prevent members of from finding common ground and working together to take down the oppressive system.
And this is especially true for all forms of oppression that happen on the axis of gender, including misogyny, transphobia and intersexism (and all the ways these types of oppression intersect with each other) and it is also true for oppression that happens on the axis of sexuality.
Misogyny is not just used to target women. Men are also often directly and intentionally targeted with misogyny, often to reinforce toxic masculinity.
Homophobia is not just used to target gay, bisexual and lesbian people. It's also used to reinforce heteronormativity in straight people, and to shame people out of gender-nonconforming behaviors.
Transphobia in particular is used to enforce who can and has to be a woman and who can't, how a "real" woman has to act and where she can and cannot go. I cannot stress this enough: Transphobia is used to enforce and reinforce sex assignment with all its legal and social repercussions, which is then used to exert patriarchal control over all trans people as well as all cis women.
Yes, trans people are of course the main targets of transphobic oppression and should be centered in trans feminist activism. At the same time, cis women are not exempt from transphobic oppression and no, they often cannot use their cis-ness to shield themselves, when a patriarchal government/society decides to harm them by targeting them with transphobia. Which is especially true for intersex women, who are regularly targeted in the same breath and with the same tactics as trans women are.
(And yes, cis men can also be targeted by transphobia. Duh.)
In short: There are no exemptions. Not from general transphobia. Not from general misogyny. And no, not from transmisogyny, exorsexism or anti-transmasculinity either.
And that's the main purpose of the term "TME": to reinforce the idea, that there are people who are exempt from transmisogyny. That's why the term uses the word "exempt" instead of literally anything else.
And this is is also why this terminology is misogynistic: It frames transmisogyny as the worst form of misogyny there is. And on top of that, it positions transmisogyny as something that can only ever be experienced by people who, after their birth, had an M put on their birth certificate.
This means that a perisex cis men is closer to being labelled as "transmisogyny affected" as any person socially and legally imposed as female will ever be.
And yes, there have been instances, where perisex cis men have been labelled as (potentially) TMA. Because they could be transfeminine eggs.
tl;dr: The TMA/TME-binary directly upholds the idea that "AFAB privilege" (and by extention "Female Privilege") is real. There is nothing feminist about this. This is the same old "people with vaginas are THE REAL OPPRESSORS(tm)" that has been pushed by MRAs and incels for decades. And it is horrifying that feminists - both cis and trans - are falling for that and believe that it is feminist practice. It's not. It's really, really not. It's transphobic and it is misogynist and it is intersexist.
For further reading, I recommend this post on the topic.
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