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There is a lot of criticism to be made of modern transfeminism and the way it is falling into radfem practice, but in calling yourself "anti-transfeminist" you're doing an incredible disservice and disrespect to not only the history of transfeminism that this modern crop of radfems are literally intentionally trying to erase (so you're just ultimately playing into and helping them construct their shitty radfem narrative), but also the work and active efforts of current non-radfem transfeminists.

You do realise the root of the abuse we get as trans women and transfemmes is being seen as predatory failed men, right? To zoom out a little, the reason for cisnormativity and its three(four, if you divide the third gender of faggots into failed men/failed women) gender model is to uphold a facet of white supremacy where cis perisex white women are trophies for cis perisex white men who fit the ideal of masculinity to "keep safe" as trophies from the Undesireables.

Within that, we're seen as undesirable predators. A threat to cis white perisex women. The idea of normative men inherently being predatory is used against us, and the disgust and hatred of normative men as something normative women have to be kept safe from *is used against us*.

Repeating the same rhetoric ourselves *is not going to save us*. All it does is propagate patriarchal, transmisogynistic violence into the queer community. Womanhood is not inherently morally pure. Manhood is not inherently predatory. These are intentional illusions- spooks, if you will- to keep a very distinctly white supremacist ideal intact.

Speaking as a trans woman myself, I think trying to divorce trans womanhood from ever having any relationship to masculinity and trying to divorce individual trans women from their past of trying to be men/socially expected to be men *isn't helpful*.

Flash: *grabs his phone, dials a number, hits call* Hey Lantern? Remember that prank we were gonna pull on Phantom?

Green Lantern, over the phone: Uh, yeah?

Danny's form is hypnotic. Being the king of the afterlife meant that he was the king off all that had once been and all that would never be again. As such, his form would simply enchant the living.

When looking upon his form they would see those that they had loved. Those that had left. They would see the opportunity that died as they never took it, the prey that escaped their clutches because they stepped on a twig, the children that they had lost before they could flourish into the perfect being that they were meant to be.

Those that believed in God, when seeing him would always immediately assume that this simply could be no other then their lord. Those that believed in multiple often thought him the head of the pantheon. Those that held the belief that there was nothing in the after would stare at him, completely enarmoured by the infinite possibilities that was them and everything. The death and birth of stars, the gentle laying to rest of an innocent soul, the love and caresses of their beloved late pet.

However if he was angry people would freeze. Seeing the end of times, people burning to death, entire planets dying heat deaths as their creatures clawed in the drying frying no-longer-mud as their lungs filled with ash and dirt and despair as they watched their imminent doom approach.

Safe to say, Danny almost never tried to go full ghost anymore, always keeping it human friendly and always toning it down, keeping himself small as to not break the minds of beings. He had accidentally melted the minds of so many intelligent creatures in the living realm that he just did not want to risk it anymore.

The problem was, in the peace talks he was holding currently were some very angry magic users. They claimed that he was taking them for a fool. That he was not the king and as per their agreement and had insulted he had insulted their nation by sending a mere recently deceased soul.

Take for example, the ridiculous number of non-Black trans people validating the idea that, "a trans woman saying "kill all tme people" to vent her frustration is the same as a Black person saying "kill all non-Black people" to vent their frustration" because it's actually fundamentally not the same on multiple levels.

First and foremost trans women are not "the Black people of the trans community". Black trans people of all gender identities are the Black people of the trans community. The fact that that comparison has been normalized by primarily non-Black people as an "okay" comparison for other non-Black people to make is racist and anti-Black.

Secondly, let's remind ourselves of the contexts here. In context, most people do use "tme" as a shorthand for trans men, trans masculine people, and nonbinary people who had an F written on their birth certificates. You can try to claim that "um actually it includes cis people" but this is hyper niche borderline chronically online trans discourse. It means other trans people. It means other people who are also marginalized on the basis of their gender identity.

So, if we're actually going to make an accurate comparison to a racialized situation here, follow me for a moment.

If a Black person said "kill all non-Black people" after weeks and months of primarily talking about how much they can't stand and don't trust other racial minorities, encouraging other Black people to cut everyone who isn't Black out of their lives while specifically focusing on how Black people should cut ties with other PoC, how solidarity and unity between racial minorities is impossible because other PoC (especially any specific demographic of non-Black PoC) can't be trusted, and constantly went on and on not about their hatred of white people but about their hatred of other racial minorities — I think it would be very fair to claim that Black person is racist towards other non-Black PoC.

Just like it's very fair to claim that a trans woman who says "kill all tme people" after weeks and months of primarily talking about how much she can't stand and doesn't trust other trans people who aren't like her, encourages other trans women to cut everyone who isn't a trans woman out of their lives while specifically focusing on how trans women should cut ties with other trans people, talks about how solidarity and unity between trans people is impossible because non-trans woman trans people (especially trans men) can't be trusted, and constantly goes on and on not about her hatred of cis people but about her hatred of other trans people is transphobic towards other trans people.

Trans discourse and racial discourse are not the same. There are absolutely aspects of Black political theory that non-Black trans people can draw upon and take notes from. Black activists and theorists have been working for over a century both outside and inside the trans community on amazing work and have laid a solid groundwork for sociopolitical change that we can and should be following.

But like I said, trans women aren't "the Black people of the trans community". Black trans people of all gender identities are the Black people of the trans community.

Often when people are discussing transandrophobia as a concept positively, Black men and other non-Black MoC are brought up as examples of how racial bigotry can overlap with gendered bigotry outside of womanhood and misogyny. That experience is then often compared to the way that transphobic bigotry can overlap with gendered bigotry outside of womanhood and misogyny.

The reason why that comparison works is because there is already foundation laid in Critical Race Theory, Black Feminist Theory, and Intersectional Theory to support and validate the lived, racialized-gendered experiences of Black men and other non-Black MoC and this form of trans sociopolitical theorizing is expanding on those pre-existing concepts and theories on the intersection of gender based biases/bigotry and other marginalizations outside of womanhood.

Transfeminism as a movement on the ground and in written theory is closely tied to Black Feminist and Intersectional Feminist action and writings. Even if your only or earliest written exposure to transfeminist theory is Whipping Girl — Julia Serano intentionally opened the book with a quote from Audre Lorde. My personal feelings about Serano's white feminist bastardization of the work of Black women, explicit erasure of transfeminist action before the turn of the century, and explicit exorsexism and bias against nonbinary people aside, Serano herself still took inspiration from a political movement that explicitly, intentionally, and thoughtfully examines marginalized manhood in good faith in its own rights, in tandem with the examination of marginalized womanhood.