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LGBTQIA+ 2d
*talking about something specific to my experience as a trans man* Literally everyone: “what about trans women” “as a trans woman…” “trans women can relate” 🫩🫩🫩🫩🫩🫩🫩🫩
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Anonymous 2d

Not to do the thing but same thing goes for trans women. Hard line to walk between solidarity and letting ppl have their moment without speaking over them

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Anonymous 2d

Definitely not enough love out there for trans men!!

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Anonymous 1d

Consider intersectionality tho, being also trans, transfems have experienced many forms of similar oppression that transmascs have. At the same time, both idenities also have more unique experiences with oppression, but because misogyny is the root of transphobia, transmasc experiences are minimized while transfems are over targeted. Thus transfems tend to seek solidarity and safety, and transmascs seek visibility and recognition

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Anonymous 1d

Tbh trans women are often inserting themselves in places and conversations that are not even about them, then they center themselves. I’ve noticed this as a lesbian too. It’s always about them.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2d

Also a transmasc btw

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1d

Wow literally the first comment is a trans woman making it about herself.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 1d

Part of intersectionality is stepping back to examine the unique forms of discrimination and privilege people face as a result of their social and political identities. Intersectionality is quite literally all about NOT lumping identities together and recognizing that people have DIFFERENT experiences with discrimination. Trans women and trans men absolutely both deal with misogyny and transphobia, but that doesn’t mean their experiences need to be compared to each other and lumped together.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1d

True

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 1d

Crazy how u generalize the whole community as a monolith so quickly

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 1d

I am transmasc brp can you not tead? Misgendering me on purpose bro

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 1d

transmisogyny and anti-transmasculinity are both oppressive forces it’s important to acknowledge, intersectionality means recognizing the specific ways that oppression is specific to an individual’s collection of traits. it’s not just a model of compounding oppression (such as in the initial framework, one is not oppressed as black and as a woman and a gay person, but as a black lesbian woman). there are both shared experiences of transphobia and misogyny, and points of divergence.

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