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“Mid-twenties effect” is defined here as like, your moods and mental health leveling out and somewhat stabilizing. Not mental illness disappearing but a general decrease in mood turbulence and that feeling that everything is the end of the world mostly disappearing. And this usually happening around age 25 though anywhere like 24-27 would also count it you had to place an exact time where it “flipped”.

i dont do many ref sheets lately but i had the urge! for a while ive been thinking abt creating a lesbian dog to dress up in little outfits like a ken doll

Actually there is no such thing as being "not affected" by a phenomenon. The entire world is interconnected. If a butterfly on the opposite side of the planet posts a transmisogynist callout, it'll result in a hurricane on the opposite side of the world, and do you know who that hurricane will harm? That's right, cis men with strong opinions on late-00s gaming culture.

What about this case of someone who isn't a trans woman, but has been assigned male at birth and fits these hallmarks of transfemininity? Has your umbrella term considered them? In this essay, I will deconstruct every flaw of your theory that I have projected onto you.

How dare you not let me into the TMA clubhouse? I'm literally nice??

This is bioessentialist as everyone "TME" is actually AFAB. Yep. There's no AMAB demographic that isn't trans women. None whatsoever. Never heard of one.

[Bizarre and incoherent invocation of intersex issues that completely erases the existence of intersex people who've been assigned male at birth and then transitioned]

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if you think there are gendered power structures in society that makes you a terf. Everyone who says "TMA" is a terf.

I also think that TME is such a huge demographic with so many different relationships to patriarchal power structures that I've sort of soured on treating them as a cohesive group. Cis man transmisogyny, cis woman transmisogyny and trans man transmisogyny manifest very differently in practice.

I feel they're the best terms for what I'm trying to talk about

I trust that the recipient actually knows what the fuck transmisogyny is, and not a pop-tumblr-politics version of it.

I trust that the recipient will know that I'm using a correct definition of transmisogyny.

I trust that the message won't be misrepresented through the lens of a failed understanding of transmisogyny regardless.

Now here's the thing: On my public Tumblr account those four conditions will never be satisfied simultaneously, and predicting who's going to fail conditions 2-4 does not relate to whether the recipient is TMA or TME.

In 2023 the US was 55'th in life expectancy (UN via wikipedia)

In 2025 The us is 57'th on the free press index (RSF.org via wikipedia)

There is no one scale or ranking for education quality worldwide, and various rankings are so different they are impossible to average out

In 2025 the us was 24th on the world happiness report (Oxford University, UN, via wikipedia)

In 2025, the us was shared 17th on the human freedom index by Fraser institute, but this is a us-based institute and in the "freedom in the world" index 2024, the us was 53rd with a 84/100 (freedomhouse)

In 2024, the us is #1 in military spending both in $ and in % of gdp (SIPRI via wikipedia)

In 2025, the US is #1 in number of billionaires, 11th per capita (Forbes, Hurun, via wikipedia)

In 2024, The us was #1 in number of incarcerated people, 5th if taken per 100,000 inhabitants (World Prison Brief via Wikipedia

The us had 517,308 bankruptcies in 2024, but i cannot find a comparison per country from a trustworthy source.

I haven't been able to find a comparison of medical debt per country, either nominal or per capita, but the us is #1 in the amount of bankruptcies caused by medical debt, with 66,5% of personal bankruptcies caused by medical debts.

In 2021, the us was 2nd globally in gun deaths (homicide, suicide, accidents combined), but first in suicides