I hate pulling the brown person card because it's so much easier for everyone to assume I'm just white like they do with everyone else
the culture around online feminism, especially around majority-white trans-inclusive feminism, is fucking dreadful. it's white progressives that flinch and ask everyone to state their pronouns when people that look like me join their support groups. it's white progressives that refuse to even broach the topic of race in their activism, or race in their communities. it's people that claim to be progressive that fail to consider how their friend groups tend to form insular bubbles that lash out at any criticism with ferocity and cruelty only comparable to TERFs and the old gamergate dudes.
the fucking point of intersectionality is to identify how race, among other things, plays into your activism and communities. it's the means by which we analyze how the old world is influencing our attempts to build a new world.
the patent refusal of these people to even consider they're being racist, or at least white-centric in their analyses, is deeply powerful. even the slightest implication that these people are being racist is enough to drive them mad, using social justice language as a cudgel to further allow the oroboros to devour its own tail and they won't even mind because they subconsciously know they're the head while brown and black people are the tail. the moment someone in their clique does something to be branded as one of the bad ones they will gleefully continue attacking their own movement; the people they should be allied with and the people they should be listening to will be exiled (for lack of a better term) for the express purpose of projecting the image of progressivism. any actual progressive theory or action taken therein is incidental.
my point is that: not everyone wants to be like you. not everyone is even able to project themselves onto your experience as a trans white person, free of the risk of getting caught for using gray market hormones or free of the stigma of being brown or black and amab person but the moment the angry-looking strong-jawed mexican trans woman uses the most gentle language possible to critique a white woman's universally-framed post about flowery trans positivity doesn't necessarily apply to brown and black people like her, she gets attacked, flamed, and suicide baited into never participating in the online trans community. this necessarily leads to people like me being chilled out of participating in trans joy because it's not the popular trans joy. it's not the white-centric image that exists and it's not the white-centric transgenderism that these "progressives" defend rabidly.
