The Trans Women's Anti-Violence Project

kiriamaya:

lucypaw:

amydentata:

So a cis-apologist article was posted, in all places, on Transadvocate today, titled It’s Bigger Than Your Womanhood. I wrote this response in the comments:

This isn’t about a “few scary women” misgendering us. This is about systemic violence. This is about capital-F feminists writing books on why trans women are an evil cell of the patriarchy trying to invade women’s spaces.

Did you just call trans men “male-identified females”? Did you really just say trans women need to sit down and take it when cissexism and transmisogyny poisons our interactions with cis women? Do you really think that brushing off attacks against trans women is somehow, despite its self-contradiction, a good way to support women? Do you think feminism benefits from leaving cissexism unquestioned? Do you think the rights of cis women and the rights of trans women are mutually exclusive? Do you not realize you’re supporting a hierarchy within womanhood, with cis women on top? Do you think that’s really what feminism is about?

Do you think only people born with vaginas experience misogyny? Do you not think trans women experience misogyny twofold, on account of being female and on account of being trans? Do you think it helps women when they’re excluded from rape shelters and women’s events? Do you think it helps women to have them categorically denied?

Do you think cis privilege is the only area feminism has failed women? Do you not see how racism, classism, ableism, and a host of other privilege overloads have turned other women off from feminism, not just (white, able-bodied, etc etc) trans women? Don’t you see the pattern? Or are you perfectly happy to kiss the feet of your cis overlords?

Cosigned.  So tired of cis apologists for feminism that ignore the actual criticisms of feminism by trans people, especially trans women and other trans people subject to sexism and misogyny, and instead create strawpeople.   Feh.

I “love” how some of the comments are like “BUT WE SHOULD ALL SUPPORT FEMINISM BECAUSE WE ARE ALL WOMEN”

Fuck that shit.

I’m so angry right now that I can barely even arse myself to care about proper caps and punctuation.

If people are telling you that your movement is hurting them, the thing NOT to do is to tell them to just shut up and take it “for the greater good”, or to tell them that NOT ALL FEMINISTS ARE LIKE THAT BAWWWWW WHY DON’T YOU LIKE US??

No. Fuck off. If your movement (and this is about the movement and not individuals) oppresses us, why shouldn’t we object to that? And don’t even start lecturing us about the “greater good”. More and more, I’m becoming convinced that that phrase, as used in actual practice, is code for “white cis abled people’s shit”.

Meh. Probably didn’t need to get myself all riled up so close to my bedtime.