Marhas did consider herself a drag queen.
Marsha is not every trans woman.
She considered herself, and was often called, a "street queen" a derogatory term for transgender women back then to imply that we were just drag queens who didn't know how to take off the make up.
The lines are not "thin" they are actually pretty fucking clear cut.
Drag queen: Someone who peforms femininity to an extreme degree, -typically but not always, men-.
Transgender woman: a woman who was coercively assigned male at birth.
"transandrodork" is not a "sexist nickname" it is a term used to refer to people who support an MRA/Gamergate-esque movement within the trans community. Oh sorry, didn't mean to use "MRA" the sexist slur so offhandedly. See how ridiculous that is?
Your "understanding" is based on child's level of historical and political literacy.
Many black people used to -and still do- call themselves racial slurs which were levied at them over the years, that does not mean that I, a white person, can call black people any of that.
In the same way that you, a TME person, cannot call transgender women drag queens or imply that the line separating us is thin.
Black trans women are decentered and erased from pretty much every modern trans rights movement. You are not helping this by calling one of the most well know black transgender women a drag queen because she did not have the nessecary language to describe her gender during her life. That so many transfems have passed with that label as one of their only form of self is a great tragedy.
And it is not because we are the same because we are the same as drag queens, it is because drag culture by and large is built on mocking transfemininity.
As for how that "says nothing about how you value the experiences of trans women, which in fact you deeply cherish."
You are literally arguing with two transgender women about how actually comparing trans women to drag queens isn't misogynistic.
You value the "experiences" of our dead sisters, and you only do so because they are no longer alive to argue with you about this.
@mountainbyamile , Thankyou.
