Most people calling themselves a TME Trans Woman did not even have to transition in a feminine direction, they are largely AFAB Queer people who are non-binary or something and use that to say ‘well non-binary people are Trans so I am a Trans Woman’.
Sometimes this is out of ignorance but more often than not there seems to be reveling in the theft of labels that ought be and historically were restricted to TMA people.
Oh, ok, I think I understand a little better, it’s appropriation, trying to claim victimhood without actually suffering any victimisation or persecution for who they are?
TME Queer people do face quite a lot of oppression in their own right, I will note, and a united front is in the best interest of all parties, but it’s just not equivalent to transmisogyny and appropriating terminology that belongs to TMA people creates even less room within the Queer community for TMA voices.
Most people calling themselves a TME Trans Woman did not even have to transition in a feminine direction, they are largely AFAB Queer people who are non-binary or something and use that to say ‘well non-binary people are Trans so I am a Trans Woman’.
Sometimes this is out of ignorance but more often than not there seems to be reveling in the theft of labels that ought be and historically were restricted to TMA people.
Oh, ok, I think I understand a little better, it’s appropriation, trying to claim victimhood without actually suffering any victimisation or persecution for who they are?
Essentially, yes.
TME Queer people do face quite a lot of oppression in their own right, I will note, and a united front is in the best interest of all parties, but it’s just not equivalent to transmisogyny and appropriating terminology that belongs to TMA people creates even less room within the Queer community for TMA voices.