evil woman

Shes the only one I’ve got

Just fem Kylar <3

An excerpt from "Transfeminist Manifesto" (2001) by Emi Koyama, that is being criticized. The image has a distorted water filter on it.

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- appropriately as boys. They were made to feel ashamed, and frequently suffered from depression. Even as adults, they live with the constant fear of exposure, which would jeopardize their employment, family relationships, friendships and safety.

However, as transfeminists, we must resist such a simplistic reaction. While it is true that male privilege affects some men far more than others, it is hard to imagine that trans women born as males never benefited from it. Most trans women have "passed" as men (albeit as "sissy" ones) at least some point in their lives, and were thus given preferable treatments in education and employment, for example, whether or not they enjoyed being perceived as men. They have been trained to be assertive and confident, and some trans women manage to maintain these “masculine” traits, often to their advantage, after transitioning.

What is happening here is that we often confuse the oppression we have experienced for being gender-deviant with the absence of the male privilege. Instead of claiming that we have never benefited from male supremacy, we need to assert that our experiences represent a dynamic interaction between male privilege and the disadvantage of being trans.

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#This is literally just twerfy transmisogyny

#WTF is this book/article/essay

y'know that they studied what happened when women were 'assertive in the workplace'. yknow what happened? they were punished. they did not receive the same benefits as men do when they ask for a wage increase. they were seen as bossy and 'bitchy'

like this take that trans women receive an 'advantage' because of their 'male socialization' is such bullshit. it effectively blames women (cis and trans) for their position. its like saying women experience a gender pay gap because 'theyre not assertive enough'

(also it is so ridiculous when we're more oppressed then any cis women on every measurable metric. like what fucking privilege? the privilege to be at risk of being homeless? the risk of being assaulted? the risk of being sexually harassed at work? the risk of losing ur job? like wtf)