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Okay tbh.
Even when I was a TRA, I felt a bit stupid when I’d say ‘trans women’ experienced worse oppression than ‘trans men’.
Because a part of me believed in sex-based oppression, but I couldn’t say that without being called a terf. So I just didn’t question it. But now I’m questioning it because… how is it that someone who was born male, was treated better for being male, and was afforded more privileges for being male can say, “I’m a woman teehee!” and all of that male privilege is just gone?
And how a female can be treated as lesser than and experience medical discrimination on the basis of her female sex, but they call themselves a man and woosh! All of the misogyny they’ve faced is gone!
“Erm well it is because trans women are women and trans men are men, so women are treated worse than men! Erm achshually this is feminism 101!”
But a woman isn’t treated horribly for saying she’s a woman. A woman is treated horribly because her sex is female. Trans men are female and therefore they experience misogyny. Trans women are male and don’t experience misogyny (unless you ‘count’ the misdirected misogyny when someone falsely assumes a TiM is a female, which is, as I said, misdirected and not an example of them actually experiencing misogyny).
So, if we’re comparing the oppression of trans men (TiFs) and trans women (TiMs)… I believe females are oppressed while males are not (on the basis of sex). So even if you’re still a TRA… it doesn’t make sense to deny reality and claim trans ‘women’ have it sooo much worse than trans ‘men’ because doing so would be denying sex-based oppression. And denying sex-based oppression is denying history.
Y’all get me?
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Let's never let go of mama....