women are like diamonds: synthetically-produced women are not meaningfully different from naturally-formed women, and anyone trying to tell you otherwise is probably trying to justify keeping their women mines open
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this is a statement from victryena, a trans woman of color who was mass harassed by (mostly) white trans women on twitter for reposting a protest sign saying "white trans people are oppressors too". the sign itself was a response to septembersister, a black trans woman and refugee in canada, having her speech suppressed at the vancouver transgender march protest. here is her full speech, made later. i am platforming them because they need to be heard, and the content of their words is urgently relevant to the current state of transfeminist discourse.
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Trans people of color are underrepresented and outnumbered. When we stand up and make ourselves visible, we put ourselves at risk of disproportionate scrutiny and harassment, not just from transphobes and bad actors, but also from those within our own community. When we want to make ourselves heard, we're told that now is not the time. We're told it's stirring up drama, in-fighting, and bad optics. Even how, and when, we express our grievances is policed. When we use provocation, it's inflammatory and lacks nuance. When we use satire, it's offensive and unproductive. When we share our personal experiences, it's the oppression olympics. When we share statistics, it's sowing division. When we clarify ourselves, it's back-pedaling. When we defend ourselves, it's doubling down. When we criticize too harshly, we're asked to placate. When we don't criticize hard enough, we're ignored outright. When it's said by a large platform, it's engagement baiting and fed posting. When it's said by a small platform, it's buried and forgotten. When it's said by a SWer, it invites shame and disparagement. And when we're lucky enough to survive beyond all of the compounding systemic barriers placed upon us (before, during, and after transition), we're seen as the example and not the exception. It's suffocating, disillusioning, and isolating. Even within a community that claims to include and support us, we have no voice. Acknowledging the intersectionality of trans people of color, especially those who are black and indigenous, is not something new within progressive spaces. And it does not take anything away from the very real experiences of white trans individuals. But it also does not absolve them from, or grant them immunity to, the same racial prejudices and biases held (subconsciously or otherwise) if they were cis. Having a marginalized gender identity does not come with the awareness of marginalized racial identities. White hegemony and oppression do not disappear when recontextualized within a transgender space, just like they don't within queer spaces more broadly. It still exists including through unexamined racial privilege and how that shapes behaviors and attitudes, and how trans white voices dominate discourse and dictate the overarching priorities of the trans community while excluding, dismissing, sidelining, and being blind to, trans bipoc perspectives. And that was made very clear from the responses throughout this entire discourse, including the same familiar displays of white fragility and conservative talking points used when confronting racial inequality more generally. To me, and all the other trans bipoc, who read every defensive reaction, deflection, straw man, dismissal, bad faith interpretation, condescending interjection, anecdotal fallacy, pedantic argument, disparaging comment, accusation, and personal attack. Every "well actually", "not all white people", "all lives matter", and "we have bigger problems". Only for those same people to inevitably virtue-signal about how their peers need to do better when one of them is outed for racism (if at all). The irony and hypocrisy has not been lost on us.
This isn't a call to action for the greater society to solve all the issues that every trans person experiences, nor is it the business of anyone outside of the trans community. It's a conversation for the trans community specifically and a direct call to action for white individuals (across all gender identities) within the trans community to take a moment of self-reflection and to have a willingness to listen with an intention to learn. Why should those in power care about the struggles of trans people as a whole when they themselves are not directly impacted and have larger problems to address? How can trans bipoc be expected to wait until the broader trans issues have been solved to finally have a voice? Especially when our own white trans peers disparage and deprioritize our grievances in much the same way? Why is the consideration of trans bipoc experiences sidelined as a secondary goal to the broader effort of transgender liberation instead of being seen as an integral and interwoven part of it? In the US, the women's suffrage movement failed to maintain intersectionality and abandoned racial equality in order to secure the white vote first. There's no need for straw man arguments when an actual equivalent example already exists. Acknowledging and platforming the most vulnerable within an already marginalized group is not a means of division, but rather an explicit act of solidarity. It's not just about not oppressing those among us with less privilege, but uplifting them with the privileges we do have so we are all empowered to fight together. None of us will be heard until we are all heard. And none of us will be free until we are all free. The trans rally sign that read "white trans people are oppressors too" wasn't even mine (mine said "trans joy"… lol…), but I understood the subtext (and context) enough to take it in good faith, and to advocate for the very real sentiment behind it. Is the semantics and optics around how we define and confront racial prejudices and systems of oppression within our own community really that much more important than the act of actually addressing it? Let's not wait until another white trans person gets outed for racism, or for another trans person of color to get dogpiled by their white peers into silence, to have this conversation again. Trans lives matters include trans bipoc lives. Trans bipoc rights are also trans rights.
MANY such cases
how about you stop fucking around and call me when you're ready to actually get serious about appetizers
I'm currently unaware of any public posts trying to campaign towards the tumblr transmasc community, but these people tend to work in private servers and forums not always accessible to the public anyways. but there has been a sharp rise in accounts using TERF rhetoric and coming into transmasc discussions as if they're "one of us". but then they introduce certain red flags that start the alarm bells for me. idk, it's a certain way of speaking and certain beliefs being espoused that make me wary.
I suspect there's a deliberate campaign going on right now. please be cautious of what posts you interact and uncritically agree with at the moment. I think there's an effort being made to recruit people and I don't like what I see. these people do not care about you. they are manipulative as fuck. they practically groom people into their groups, chew them up, and spit them out.
anything encouraging you to view trans women as male or male-adjacent should put you on high alert anyways, but especially in this current rise of global fascism. stressful circumstances are the easiest time for cults to capture new victims. these people prey on that exact thing.
to my transmasc followers: trans women and transfems are not your enemy. they are not lesser than or intellectually naive. you are not an expert on the trans woman/transfem experience just because you have experience as a misogynized subject. you do not know more about what it is like to be a trans woman or transfem than a trans woman/fem herself. you do not necessarily know more about misogyny than a trans woman/fem does, and she does not necessarily know more about misogyny than you do. you have different perspectives on very similar issues. do not try to mentally prop yourself up above that of trans women/fems. you are equals. you are peers. you are not more or less than one another. that means you, too, are fallible and capable of prejudice. do not forget that. do not abandon others just because you feel hurt and unheard.
The way my classes this semester look in my calendar is endlessly funny to me. Fuck man I'm sorry, I can't hang out on September 22nd, I'm so busy.
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acrylic, canvas 40*50 cm «Lighthouse of the Northern Sunset» 2025
