#it goes w/o saying that a similar post could be made abt trans men

[bioethicists]

trans ppl, particularly trans women, aren't allowed to be people. they get held up as trans first + foremost so everything about them must be a consequence of their transness.

there are thousands, millions even, of misogynistic cis women. of cis women with shitty, essentialist takes on gender. of vain cruel creepy rude vapid selfish ignorant cis women. these traits in cis women are either dismissed as individual flaws or even held up as somehow liberating or radical by neoliberal feminism.

in trans women, these traits are held up as Proof of their contamination by Maleness, rather than a consequence of living in a misogynistic society which is by no means unique to trans ppl.

#it goes w/o saying that a similar post could be made abt trans men #but i do think that this attitude towards trans women is a huge part of the rise in transphobic abuse rn #transmisogyny