The Foxgirl Formerly Known as Cicero

Hi Cyana i just wanna let you know that youre cool and smart and awesome and i hope life is so so so kind to you okay bye <3

Hehehe im so glad!!

this is what is happening between us when i like your vent post

I love when beavers look like they've just been offered an incredibly generous gift and are wondering whether to reach out and take it

It's so awesome cool and progressive that the second result of looking up a trans woman on this site is a dedicated hate blog that specifically states "DNI if you defend this trans woman"

I would appreciate it if people reblogged this version that specifically calls out that none of the cis men in the same industry are held to the same standard even when they've done worse, continue to do worse and have not shown any sign of changing or regretting their past actions besides "I stopped saying the n word because people would get mad at me" and not because it's racist.

Okay like heres the thing to me. If we are going to conceptualize transmasc and transfem to mean "people who transition in a masculinizing way" and "people who transition in a feminizing way" respectively, then we have to also be okay with the fact that its intrinsically connected to assigned gender at birth. Which is fine, and even important when we're talking about transfeminism and transfemininity and the tma/tme dichotomy. Theyre useful words that define trans people in a mostly coherent (if imperfect) way, and lets us talk about how agab affects how you move through the world as a trans person. Like, all things being equal, a hypothetical transmasc they/them and a transfem they/them that look exactly the same will still carry with them different baggage from the gender they were assigned at birth. I hope this makes sense.

I think that the words TMA/TME are good signifiers of transmisogyny dynamics because they allow for naming who experience transmisogyny structurally without calling someone fem or masc, and while including nonbinary folks in this intersectional theory, as long as every party involved has an understanding of these dynamics. But once you need to explain why, the entire class of cis people aside, you will inevitably land in a conversation of the societal violence of CAGAB and effect of the direction of transition thereupon. Thus you will need some way to describe the direction of transition to describe that dynamic.