the stars are yuri

trans men actually have a lot of visibility you just gotta look into any issue affecting exclusively or primarily trans women and you'll see that people loooove platforming trans men when it's at the expense of trans women which to be fair does seem to be their preference a lot of the time but it's fucking surreal and bizarre, like

hi sorry i'm just a stupid tranny can you answer a couple of questions for me so I can understand

the positioning of transfem hypervisibility and transmasc invisibility as two opposing forces is so insidious and dangerous because it reinforces the status quo where trans men's voices are already valued over trans women's

“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; one day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hallow mockery; your prayers and hyms [sic], your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy – a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.”

Why are yuri manga set at the age of dealing with the stereotype of lesbianism being a "practice" relationship for the real thing? Why aren't they set in college so they can deal with the American stereotype of lesbianism being an experiment you do and move on from?