Oh yeah there is a TON of chauvinism among nonbinary folks towards binary folks; of course NOT directed at the literal hundreds of millions of cis men and women out there who are actually responsible for embracing and perpetuating binary gender, but trans women and men who are trying to claw back even the slightest…

Honestly it’s not really that encouraging. Among certain cis feminists there’s a lot of love for this kind of ‘deconstructionist queerness’ in those of us DMAB who are also nonbinary, like some kind of mutant form of fag haggery. But that affection doesn’t necessarily translate into acceptance of binary trans women,…

I think that maybe “the idea that going around with a natural face is bad for self-esteem” is inferring meaning that really isn’t there. Fundamentally it has nothing to do with the makeup itself or being “pretty” by conventional standards, but rather the ability to be “normal.” When it hasn’t been forcibly denied to…

It’s frustrating how many comments here are about how SHOCKED people are that white cishet women as a whole vote solidly Republican. As if it’s some incredible new revelation to the rest of us. Or how they then treat these women as naive victims who have been tricked by the Patriarchy into voting against their own…

Thank you, I do what I can :)

I mean I doubt trans people even crossed their minds when making this. We’re generally not on the radar unless we’re specifically talking about Trans Issues™ or for the sake of ‘competitive wokeness’ as you point out. Because the point she’s making is just the Roll Safe meme - people in positions of power can’t show…

Oh there’s a lot of truth to the idea as far as society as a whole goes. But the problem is that they try to treat us as a monolith, and condense our entire childhoods into one of two binary, mutually exclusive boxes, without knowing or understanding what we go through. As you said, we’re exposed to these…

I think trans who are raised as boys are raised to fight for themselves

in which the media is only comfortable with these women, because they’ve been born male

The same reason most gay cis people on TV have traditionally been feminine gay guys, the same reason why a good chunk of Drag Race fans probably couldn’t name a single drag king - because you can’t sensationalize and fetishize masculinity without calling into question the patriarchy itself. “Playing” with femininity…

Normally I wouldn’t count that as much, because the huge power imbalance means you could just be told to transcribe the director’s amazing man-vision made with his amazing man-brain, and you’re only really there so they can say “But we have trans writers! Our show can’t be transphobic!” when his vision turns out to be…

Isn’t this a chance to dismantle the system that has defined and oppressed so many for so long, and maybe start a new system?

What you’re missing is that although “sex object” is a bad standard, it’s a massive step up from “worthless freak”.

“Exert dominance” is subliminal messaging for other Beckys to help them cope with being confronted by criticism and eliminate any growing self-awareness that interferes with mindless self-congratulations on dealing their white cis woman oppression. Basically, “you were born with a dick so your opinion is invalid” in a…

Comments like this are why, as a white trans woman, I feel compelled to keep coming back to the Root. There’s something indescribably therapeutic in how much my frustrations with white cis feminists line up with those of women of color, despite the fact that I am *so* goddamn white. The fact that they do the same shit…

The transphobia on this thread is part of the scam that is White Feminism. It’s a way for white cis women to avoid having any kind of self-reflection or self-criticism of white womanhood and it’s role in the Patriarchy by pretending that all of Caitlyn’s awfulness boils down to having been born with a dick. Raging…

My apologies, I think that was a miscommunication. With that aside I was just trying to say that those kinds of people are widespread when talking about trans issues, not that you were necessarily one of them. That’s one of the reasons why other people replying to you may be skeptical (I had not read other replies to…

(I likened it to women who have abortions who then become vocal opponents of choice).

Well that’s kind of the problem with the article: there’s a huge time lag and the specific narratives presented are not necessarily in the same context as today’s treatment regimens. It’s discussing people whose childhoods were 15, 20, 30 years ago. Approaches HAVE changed, and the standards of care and how to deal…

There are a couple of problems I have with that article: