It is infuriating how every time this happens everyone wants to talk about transmisogyny but nobody wants to talk about trans women. Like it's really clear that we are invisible even when people want to discuss policies that segregate trans people out of public life. The discussions of how transmisogyny, racism, and intersexism overlap and intertwine are good. The problem lies in the fact that people only ever want to discuss the transmisogyny when it affects someone who it wasn't "supposed" to affect, i.e. people coercively assigned female at birth whether cis or intersex. They are always talked about as the "real" or "original" victims of transmisogyny. All the trans women who wanted to make it to a national/international stage but never could due to our penises/hormones/chromosomes deeming us to be failed men clearly aren't the true victims of transmisogyny. The real victims are the tme people who were ultimately able to get past all these segregating policies by proving they aren't trans women. Yes they face scrutiny and that's terrible, but they were able to make it through. So how do you think it feels to be forced through that same scrutiny but with no chance of making it through because the policies are in place to make sure people like you can't ever reach the same level of success.
