Just a reminder that oppression is what happens under institutions of systemic power.
Transgender people of every gender do not have the systemic power to oppress each other along gendered lines because we are not accepted as our genders by the system of gender hierarchy. We are oppressed by the same systems in different ways, but they're still literally the exact same systems.
Lateral transphobia/transmisogyny/transandrophobia/exorsexism/etc. exists in the trans community and there are trans people out there who will go out of their way to police and throttle other trans people ā but that is not oppression. It's called lateral bigotry for a reason.
I'm really sick of seeing predominantly white trans people who are absolutely obsessed with trying to find a hierarchy of gendered power and privilege within the trans community under the guise of intersectionality while also completely ignoring the fact that race statistically has a larger impact on a trans person's access to housing, access to economic stability, their ability to transition, their experiences with violence, etc. etc. than just their gender alone.
It's straight up just white feminism. It's part of the well documented history of racist/race blind white queers subconsciously thinking queer identity somehow exists void of race because they view themselves as void of race. It's the white logic of "race is something that happens to PoC, not white people" and it is the exact shit that was alienating queer, Black writers like James Baldwin and Audre Lorde 40-50 years ago. Nothing has changed. It's still the same shit that continues to alienate trans PoC now.
Do better.



















