I cannot begin to stress how important it is for TMA people to be able to freely speak and say stupid shit, to have space to breath without hypervisibility petrifying any transfeminist discourse before it can flesh itself out because the people's who are experiencing the subject matter of the political discipline are denied the right to speak of the unique social relations of transfemininity without a state of the art lexicon informed by every single other sociological discourse around marginalisation - this isn't to say that we shouldn't strive for intersectionality etc! quite the opposite! it's just that it's actually apart of the marginalisation to expect university degree levels of analysis from girls just talking about life and their frustrations - they might have weird conclusions, wrong conclusions, but their experiences and grieviences are valid and we need to be able to have a platform if we are to ever defeat transmisogyny and therefore the patriarchy by extension.
i felt this in my fucking gut, the anxiety that i feel when i'm about to express any sort of marginalization i feel for being openly obviously transfem in the world, like i have to be perfectly eloquent and take every other group into account before i start to even be able to think about how people are hurting me.
whats super fucked up as well is that "other groups" often means people with power over us!
when those with power over us can't get away with using a given discourse that denies our lack of power; such as, misandry, or "sex based oppression" and its adjacent arguments - they turn to attacking us with queer-prescriptivism, puritanism/anti-kink, thought crimes and if those don't work, things will be exaggerated from strawman arguments relying on the former to prop up further lies using targeted harassment, lies and rumour-mil powered defamation.
and if not all this? then it's to come for a TMA person claiming that it's about a typically privileged demograph, which can also be lied about since if it gets falsified, the damage is done.
how can a transfeminine person with lackluster ideas develop her thought, if she is barred from participation in public life in ways that others rarely experience? is there life after social death?
im like if a boy was a doll or a bug or a girl or some other thing