#trans separatism

cis women as a group have a position of power over trans women because they're cis. this means that if a particular trans woman don't need or want to befriend her oppressors, it's perfectly fine. but the thing is that no trans woman gatekeeps cis women from being her friends, it's always the opposite! and it's because of transmisogyny!

trans women don't owe cis women accomodations and friendship if they don't want to. we, cis women, are the ones who need to stand up for them and make welcoming and safe spaces for them. we need to analyse our own beliefs, the way transmisogyny works and understand trans women's struggles.

Stop seeing your sisters as an enemy, any trans women/ transfem that is hostile towards men & masc is a minority and should not be used as justification for separatism.

Talk about your struggles, talk about your frustrations. But if you think your sisters and NB siblings are the reason why you're oppressed you're just doing the work of a cishetnormativity society and tearing people down when we should be lifting each other up.

i really do.

but it doesn’t work.

and whatever hope we might have had at implementing it — it’s basically gone. forever.

how would we get our healthcare? how would we even get enough people? not even to mention, it would now require systemically sabotaging a LOT of cis-trans couples for it to get any traction, and the nature of that would cause it backfire against the cause of separatism.

even if we could make like a trans separatist commune, it wouldn’t stop anyone from continuing to vilify us.

nope, then it would become less like a project for escaping persecution and gaining independence and more like the troon containment zone, because that’s the only way it would gain traction.

because yea, cis people really fucking hate us, and they won’t ever stop hating us.

we will always be the greatest fucking evil that ever was to them.

no amount of anyone being attracted to me will validate my gender identity, and i know that it isn’t meant to. well then an attraction to me as a transfem would be treated as validation for someone else’s attraction to women, or pity, or whatever other lukewarm “acceptance” is going on in the heads of cis people.

or they could also be pornsick. i’ve been around so many men and even a few women who are like that. and separatism in itself doesn’t exactly specify anything against trans people being pornsick either.

“but there are good cis people!”

that literally doesn’t matter, even if it were true. what are they gonna do? eradicate transphobia? not likely.

and i don’t like seeing people on this site saying,

“don’t you see how separatism is wrong?”

no, i literally can’t. don’t you see how it’s wrong to try to make us play tea party with people who want us DEAD?

it’s all bullshit.

there is no solution that actually works here, and it hurts.

Back in the day, liberal progressivism had to form coalitions with fascists in order to break apart the radical parties, blocs, and organizations which opposed them (none of which I’d consider Bernie to represent.)

Now, the mere threat of fascism and the vain hope of liberal democracy is enough to get radicals of all striped clamoring for the status quo.

http://transblog.grieve-smith.com/2014/04/30/the-essential-conflict-between-transitioners-and-non-transitioners/

I don't necessarily agree with everything Angus "Andrea" Grieve-Smith writes, but she makes some very important points about the similarities between the various shades of gender variance.

She writes:

"I’ve written here before that I believe most transgender people share the same basic feelings: gender dysphoria, transgender desire and gender fog.

"Whether you are transsexual, transvestite, drag queen, drag king, butch lesbian, genderqueer, non-binary or something else, you almost certainly experience one of those feelings, and probably all three."

What habitual users/ bloggers want: "Everyone should love each other for who they are, and everyone should get along and share the same opinions."