This-is-agenphobia

Folks, if you don't know who Emi Koyama was, you should. Her website (eminism.org, which is a delightful pun) has a ton of her work entirely for free.

You can read the Transfeminist Manifesto in particular here. Emi considered it a historical document and she wrote a very good self-critique in 2008 (included in the document) on the subject of the Manifesto, white feminism, and the lack of inclusion of trans and genderqueer people who aren't trans women. I highly encourage everyone who wants to involve themselves in transfeminism to read her work, not because it is perfect, but because I do think Emi Koyama's Manifesto represents the best intentions for transfeminism: the desire to challenge cissexism, to take activism seriously and compassionately, and a commitment to being open and honest about where we fall short and how we can do better.

I really appreciate this quote from her, which I hadn't seen before, on the subject of feminism needing to "fit in" trans people:

Cis feminists do not own feminism. We don't need to "fit trans people into feminist theory"; we simply need to challenge cissexism in feminist movements and theories. Trans people do not need to be explained by feminist theory; we need to start from the fact that trans people exist and matter.

And it would be a crime to not mention how hard she fought specifically for women of color, to challenge racism and imperialism (white/western and non-white/non-western) in feminist spaces and in general, as well as her intersex activism, and far more. She had such a drive to contribute to, engage with, and push for more and better feminist discourse.

as of July 30 they've only raised 53% of their goal, & they could also use clothing donations & other supplies if you are local:

Emi, co-founder and co-director at Aileen’s, beloved friend and sex trade, trans, intersex, queer, disability, gender-based violence, and feminist advocate extraordinaire, passed away on Wednesday, June 10th 2026. In her final days, Emi was surrounded by her incredible and loving community and chosen family. Help us continue her life's work and keep her organization open and serving our community. Emi was the driving force that holds together Aileen’s–a peer-led community organizing and hospitality space by and for women living and working along Pac Highway. And, if you knew Emi, you would not be surprised to hear that her work at Aileen’s is a massive undertaking, because her dedication to serving the community meant she did more than humanly possible in a 24 hour day. It is crucial that Aileen’s continues to serve women who are experiencing homelessness, criminalization, and violence. Since 2019, Aileen’s has provided hospitality space, non-judgemental and accepting community, peer support, resources, harm reduction advocacy, and outreach services. Led by 6 part-time peer staff, Aileen’s aids community dealing with issues of poverty, criminal legal, CPS, substance use, domestic violence, police harassment and brutality, sexual assault and harassment, racism, transphobia, and more. Countless people rely on Aileen’s for necessities like food, supplies, showers, clothing, and a safe place to rest. Emi has been essential in Aileen’s ability to serve the community, and Aileen's was Emi's most cherished project. Without her or other support, the organization is at risk of shutting down. Weeks ago, when asked what all Emi does for Aileen’s, co-director Leslie said “Oh, she does everything.” It is hard to describe “everything”, but Emi handled: all grant writing and reporting, administration responsibilities, fiscal sponsor management, coalition building, court and political advocacy, resource accrual for survivor support, safety planning, and training/education for staff and community. Aileen's, and all of Emi's past work, is about liberation and survival under a system that has left so many without. With your donation, Aileen’s can increase pay and hire more peer staff, transfer daily operations, buy essential supplies like food, clothes, harm reduction items, and take care of basic costs not covered by grants. [...] *While $$$ donations are essential, Aileen’s is in serious need of donated clothing and some other supplies. Please contact donate@ (aileens.org) to coordinate making clothing donations and see our wishlist at our website.

you've seen the jokes. india is "dirty", indians are "everywhere", why don't they fix their own country. ok. let me tell you why, and what's happening right now while nobody's watching.

first, the history you skipped: britain ruled india for two centuries and drained it. economist utsa patnaik's research estimates around $45 trillion in today's money was taken. the india that got independence in 1947 was one of the poorest countries on earth. every "why is india like this" question starts there. you don't get to profit off a robbery and then mock the crime scene.

now, what's happening RIGHT NOW:

in may the question paper for NEET leaked. that's the national medical entrance exam. over 2.2 million students took it. cancelled. years of studying, families' savings poured into coaching, gone overnight because someone sold the paper. students died by suicide after. these were kids who wanted to be doctors.

and out of that came a protest movement. a gen z group called the cockroach janta party, started by a 30 year old named abhijeet dipke, got 22 million instagram followers within DAYS. they've been doing a sit-in at jantar mantar in delhi demanding education minister dharmendra pradhan resign.

and then there's sonam wangchuk. if you've watched 3 idiots, he's the real engineer the character was based on. built solar schools in ladakh. invented ice stupas so himalayan villages have water. spent his whole life on education. he's 59 and he's been on hunger strike for 17+ days now. reporters went to see him this week and he was too weak to talk. and the troll armies are calling him "anti national" and "foreign funded". a man starving himself for other people's children. that's the thing here, anyone who asks a question is suddenly a traitor.

it's not one incident, it's everywhere you look:

• infrastructure worth thousands of crores failing within months of the ribbon cutting. tunnels collapsing in regions where heavy rain is a guarantee, not a surprise.

• youth unemployment near 10% for ages 15 to 29, 13.6% in cities. in a country of 1.42 billion where more than half the population is young.

• only about the top 3% of indians earn above 10 lakh a year. meanwhile billionaire wealth keeps ballooning and the headlines celebrate it.

• manipur burned for over two years. an ethnic conflict, tens of thousands displaced, and the prime minister barely said the word manipur while it happened.

• journalists raided. critics' houses bulldozed. activists sitting in jail for years without trial under laws like UAPA. our press freedom ranking has cratered.

• even the petrol is a fight now, ethanol blending pushed through while drivers complain about their engines and get no straight answers.

and through all of it, the PM, who came to power on religious polarisation (americans, sound familiar?), travels abroad for photo ops and has not held one single open press conference in over a decade. not one.

what i'm asking:

if you're not indian: share this. our media mostly won't cover any of it because the big outlets are owned by the same billionaires the government serves. the only reason wangchuk's fast is getting any coverage is people refusing to look away.

if you ARE indian: speak up even if you're comfortable. especially if you're comfortable. join the protests. add to this, correct me, translate it. staying quiet is a choice when nothing in this post touches your life.

india is not "dirty". india was robbed, and it's being robbed again, from the inside this time. but it's also the country where a 59 year old will starve for strangers' kids and 22 million young people will rally behind a party literally named after cockroaches, because cockroaches survive everything.

we can still save her. but only loudly.

For context + important info before I continue:

I am not medically transitioning as i am a minor and it’s illegal for minors under the age of 18 to medically transition or take cross-sex hormones in the current US state I live in. However I do naturally have naturally male and androgynous features such as a mid range voice, a smaller sized easy-to-bind chest, and am a little taller and have broad shoulders and have body hair. I also present myself masculinely. I also identify as a transmasc enby and as a demiaroace pan (-rose) and as a butch bear cub and consider my attraction to both genders to be queer. I use hy/hym/hys (pronounced like “high/hem/hes”) primarily but also use they/them. I have been out for a while now and grew up openly transgender and nonbinary, I also am perceived as masculine socially. I have a lot of experience socially with discrimination for being transmasculine still regardless of being seen as masculine.

Anyways, to the actual meat of the post:

I am know with transmasculine men they get malgendered by transandrophobes as a way to tear them down, erase/silence them from conversations , or reinforce gender roles and that is undeniably awful and I am not trying play oppression olympics about it but not only are transmasc enbies malgendered we are also maliciously misgendered as binary men by a lot of the same people who perpetuate transmisandry against binary trans men. We have our masculinity reduced to “evil man” instead of being seen as nonbinary and unique to our own whenever people want to weaponize our masculinity against us. Ive had plenty of arguments with people where they used he/him/his or with terms related to being a man despite me not liking it and knowing such with the intention of demonizing me as a some kind of threat or like I’m just this “horrible misogynistic MAN” because i want to be included in reproductive healthcare and rights conversations without having to give up my masculinity despite having a uterus, or some other bullshit and I feel like when you look at it from the perspective of “transmisandrists misgender and malgender transmasc enbies who look masc” is when you realize that every who says transandrophobic bullshit hurt the entire transgender community as a whole and don’t only hurt transgender men, they hurt transmasculine enbies by purposely and blatantly misgendering us as binary men because to them it’s justified if I “get to fuck with pooners” because none of what their saying is with good faith or honest intentions and they don’t care about trans women or cis women all:

this is 100% true, you don’t need to fulfill any requirements to be nonbinary. femininity, masculinity and androgyny are all social constructs

This GENUINELY Boils my blood. I don't care if it was a joke. This is plain out exorsexism. Nonbinary people owe you nothing. Also the "Trans women are allowed to make fun of you" just icks me out especially with how much exorsexism & Transandrophobia is on the rise (I do not mean transfems are the only ones or I don't mean they do it the most either). No one is allowed to make of you. Period 🫩 being trans doesn't excuse this.

I'm not surprised they are dehumanizing and demeaning anyone that is calling them out on their bullshit. You being transfem doesn't give you the right to bully others. Reeks of exorsexism and transandrophobia in general 🫩 what I find funny is this person doesn't realize transfem includes nonbinary identites. During pride month is actually insane. Fucking pissed me offff

this is Agenphobia and racism, because it was BLACK trans women who where at the forefront for trans and queer rights, white trans women and other minority trans women are not allowed to ride on black trans women’s hard work. 

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Traumisia: The oppression and stigmatization of people with psychological trauma.

Examples:

TMA is a term meaning Transmisogyny Affected. TME is Transmisogyny Exempt.

In its usage, anybody that is not transfem is considered TME; in more extreme cases, anybody that is not a trans woman might be considered TME. I've gotten the sense that I'm getting pretty close to the transandrophobes declaring me TME, as the term is very inconsistent.

Here's the elephant in the room, TME is a slur; it is a new slur, and I've not seen anybody really label it as such yet, so I'm taking some responsibility for making that call and getting the word out.

TME is not used as a helpful, educational, empowering, or even consistent label. What it is used for is solely to attack transmasc and nonbinary people. It exists to silence them, to other them; that is its purpose.

TME is also built upon a falsehood; the truth of the matter is that no trans person, not a single one, is exempt from transmisogyny. We are all affected. People using TME as a term like to claim otherwise, as a means of centering themselves, but the claim is completely unsubstantiated and borders on self delusion.

Knowing this, I believe we need to recognize TMA and TME for what they are, unacceptable terms with no valid usecase, which exist solely to cause harm to our community.

tma: trans women, trans femme (specifically enbies and or neopronoun users)

tme: trans men (all of kinds) trans masc individuals + everyone else ig

it’s makes no sense because this is literally the definition from the whipping girl - by Julia Serano:

Drag queens and cis people, who can be intersex people, & intersex people, are included to! and what is the definition of a transfemme individual/person? SOMEONE/EVERYONE WHO IS TRANSFEMME! TRANSFEMME MEN ARE INCLUDED IN TRANSMISOGYNY!

and before anyone come in my comments and reblogs saying ‘oh well the wiktionary says it only applies to trans women!’

yes it does, but here’s the author of the whipping girl herself saying that’s not how she intended this word to be used, including using it to bash trans men:

This is speciesism!

My name is Calico! I'm an adult and I use she/they/it/any pronouns except for he/him along with you/your and thou/thee second person pronouns. And this blog is for anything speciesist or anything that is bigoted or against animals, plants, fungai, or nature in general!

I don't have a dni and anybody can send an ask. I'm friendly towards all folk, creatures, critters, cryptids, humans, and beings. This is also a delusion and IRL safe spot.

Although speciesism is usually defined as "the assumption of human superiority leading to the exploitation of animals," - I am extending this blog towards mistreatment of all of nature.

Forests, oceans, ice caps, mushrooms, nature in general, as I feel as if the assumption of human superiority overlaps and causes the exploitation of all of nature, not just animals.

Please also keep in mind that this blog is not a vegan blog. Not everyone can sustainably become vegan. Some bodies cannot sustain a vegan diet. Some people live in food deserts and don't have the money to drive to a place where they can buy vegan food. Many Native Americans live on reservations and are required to hunt in order to survive. Many religions and spiritual practices see hunting and consuming animal products as a sacred act.

This isn't the place to complain about people not being vegan. But you ABSOLUTELY can bring up how horrific things such as fur farming, mass company fishing, and modern agriculture is. You ABSOLUTELY can bring up abhorrent food dishes that require unnecessary brutality such as ortolan or pinikpikan, but make sure to criticize such dishes without xenophobia or racism.

This blog does not have a DNI! This is a blog about sharing speciesist experiences, not a personal blog! Anybody can experience this and I will not bar somebody from sharing their experiences even if we share differing beliefs!

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