#transmisogynoir

[illnessfaker]

tw: murder, transmisogynoir

( article published feb. 24th, 2024 )

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina man was found guilty Friday of killing a Black transgender woman in the nation’s first federal trial over a hate crime based on gender identity.

After deliberating for roughly four hours, jurors convicted Daqua Lameek Ritter of a hate crime for the murder of Dime Doe in 2019. Ritter was also found guilty of using a firearm in connection with the fatal shooting and obstructing justice.

A sentencing date has not yet been scheduled. Ritter faces a maximum of life imprisonment without parole.

[...]

The four-day trial over Doe’s killing centered on the secret sexual relationship between her and Ritter, the latter of whom had grown agitated by the exposure of their affair in the small town of Allendale, according to witness testimony and text messages obtained by the FBI. Prosecutors accused Ritter of shooting Doe three times with a .22 caliber handgun to prevent further revelation of their romance.

[...]

Doe’s close friends testified that it was no secret in Allendale that she had begun her social transition as a woman shortly after graduating high school. She started dressing in skirts, getting her nails done and wearing extensions. She and her friends discussed boys they were seeing — including Ritter, whom she met during one of his many summertime visits from New York to stay with family.

But text messages obtained by the FBI suggested that Ritter sought to keep their relationship under wraps as much as possible, prosecutors said. He reminded her to delete their communications from her phone, and hundreds of texts sent in the month before her death were removed.

Shortly before Doe’s death, their exchanges grew tense. In one message from July 29, 2019, she complained that Ritter did not reciprocate her generosity. He replied that he thought they had an understanding that she didn’t need the “extra stuff.”

He also told her that Delasia Green, his main girlfriend at the time, had insulted him with a homophobic slur after learning of the affair. In a July 31 text, Doe said she felt used and Ritter should never have let Green find out about them.

[...]

Green said that when he showed up days later at her cousin’s house in Columbia, he was dirty, smelly and couldn’t stop pacing. Her cousin’s boyfriend gave Ritter a ride to the bus stop. Before he left, Green asked him if he had killed Doe.

“He dropped his head and gave me a little smirk,” Green said.

from the HRC:

Doe’s friends and family remembered her on social media as having a “bright personality” and being someone who “showed love” and who was “the best to be around.” Another friend wrote, “If I knew Friday was my last time seeing you, I would have hugged you even tighter.”

according to NYT's article, she also worked as a hairdresser. she was only 24.

#transmisogynoir #transmisogyny #misogynoir #say her name #rest in power #op #hate crime -

[maxophone]

A black trans woman was on her way to a gender affirming care appointment when her at the time boyfriend pushed her onto the subway tracks. She has had the lower parts of both her legs amputated.

There is more info in the fundraiser page and here: https://www.instagram.com/p/C5zL5buP1iN/?igsh=NTF1NmVmYThyNHE=

Please share widely - not sure if this has been posted on tumblr yet but i’m sure it cant hurt to post it again.

(PS - she has chosen anonymity, which is why her name is not mentioned.)

#black lives matter #black trans lives matter #black trans women #injury #domestic violence #domestic abuse #transphobia #transmisogyny #transmisogynoir #mutual aid #anarchism #new york #nyc #lgbt mutual aid #signal boost #Instagram

[butchniqabi]

i dont know if yall remember Pebbles LaDime Doe, but her killer was finally put to justice. rest in paradise angel

#transmisogynoir

[fluoresensitive]

Yemeya @ yemzface on Tiktok

#🦢 #on gender #transmisogynoir #shes literally so right

[mettaworldpiece]

this is like the v reason it is a -danger- for Black trans women to engage w chasers or even the dl types who pay more attention to the homies than the ppl they desire. It has been known for decades that antiblackness and transmisogyny (transmisogynoir) are the driving cause behind what makes a major portion of these chasers decide to kill us after desiring to be with us: shame, fear of being ostracized or killed themselves, unreckoned with internal trans- and homophobia as well as the fetishization and disposability of Black trans women are all factors at play and yet white trans ppl called us fascists on here for saying we did not think it was some great honor for a supposed tme “ally” to refer to themselves as a chaser on here :/

#antiblackness #transmisogynoir #Blackt4t as a means of survival as much as point of love and pride

[bfpnola]

please watch the whole video! i’ve always loved the work of @/thatbrownguurl on tiktok!

— reaux (she/they)

#untranscribed #tiktok #resources #bipoc #reaux speaks #black lives matter #queer #trans #misogynoir #transphobia #femininity #intersectional feminism #womanhood #transmisogynoir

[magz]

What do you mean by "trend" posts, I don't understand?

Theres a trend where

Whenever an "event" happens that brings up the subject of transmisogyny (in this case avewy being permabanned by the tumblr ceo, and the transmisogyny of the situation)

In spaces where the event is talked about a lot -

There will be an uptick of popular posts by fellow TMEs of color about black/brown transfems being ignored, as a way to "react" to the topic

But worded in ways that imply not understand the underlying issue nor why/how transmisogynoir happens, n how they too are responsible for that (magz too, but am try actively minimize it)

N sounds like ppl are talking about specimens n not like. Actual people. Or putting them on pedestals ala the surface-level cliché phrase of "but like, Marsha P. Johnson threw the first brick at stonewall"* but reinvented

And then black/brown transfems get ignored or erased or chased out again until the next event where they can be brought up as a topic. Tools of subject.

Or as specific people that they have to gain the approval of to not be seen as a bigot, but silence the ones that don't.

A thing you will often hear black n brown transfems that have been around that for too long - bemoan n groan about as a pattern. Whether in private or publicly.

A trend, a pattern. Its a form of transmisogynynoir. and a TME (magz) criticizing oneself and other TMEs abt it will have less backlash and obsession garnered towards him.

#there is no 1 specific post magz can point to as its all belnding together. cuz there's so many #anonymous #ask post #o post #response #transmisogyny #transmisogynoir #sij

[thottybrucewayne]

All I'm saying is many white leftists, esp in online spaces, have an antiblackness problem.

They need to investigate why that is if they want to be an actual ally to the Black community and not just pay lip service.

Ain't no way yall should be more comfortable getting all your knowledge of Black liberation politics from secondhand, nonblack sources than you are from Black leftists.

The Soulbunni situation is fucked up, but what makes it even more fucked up to me is watching the same people with big platforms who came out to defend Kelly Cadigan, the racist grifter white trans woman off of TikTok who said that Black people enjoyed slavery, stay completely silent about the harassment campaign against Soulbunni…

Soulbunni has been doxxed, and she has to move out of her town because she's being harassed online and irl, people are building a cottage industry on YouTube out of making video after video on her trying to paint her as an "Insane purple-haired tenderqueer sjw Black lady who hates white people."

Even though, everything she's said in the seven videos she has up on her channel is just shit you would already know if you spent any amount of time talking to Black and Native trans leftists or reading any theory from Black and Native leftists like, at all.

Soulbunni has not once said, "These white people are irredeemable, they must be culled."

But the fact that white leftists, most notably white trans leftists, are acting like she did is very telling!

Black leftists are never allowed to talk about antiblackness, transmisogynoir, or misogynoir in left spaces. We have to be attack dogs for the bigot of the day and that's it.

We're expected to wait in the wings for a larger white content creator to speak on our behalf because you're way more comfortable talking about us than to us!

I bet you if a white leftist like Thoughtslime or somebody like that remade any of Soulbunni's videos word-for-word bar for bar, they would not be getting the same level of harassment Soulbunni is getting for it and we all know why.

#thotty speaks #I just wish yall would be real like just be honest! #Yall out here bitching about antiwhite racism because a Black trans fem person called you on your shit you pussy! #thotty rants #transmisogynoir #antiblackness #cornbreadtube #yall did the same shit to prof flowers! Yall keep harassin Black people online and calling yourself the hero that's nuts!

[songofsonnets]

i do not like the term transandrophobia, i would like to briefly summarise why.

to me, the term transandrophobia implies that androphobia exists and it does not. men are not systemically oppressed by any means and it is strange, to me, to have that term there to validate that. even if you think of black men, disabled men, queer men, etc, it is not on strictly terms of their maleness that they are oppressed. taking an intersectional approach, we can indeed acknowledge how gender modifies how one may experience racism, ableism, queerphobia etc but i think implying men face significant institutional barriers is foolhardy at best.

i dislike how the term is used as opposition to transmisogyny. the oppression of trans men and transmascs works in tandem and as an symbiotic amplifier to the oppression of trans women and transfems, not as opposition. trans women and transfems do not benefit from ‘transandrophobia’ the way it is implied. they can not tangibly oppress us. the theorist Nsambu Za Suekama very particularly pointed this out with anti-transmasculinity.

that does lead to my next point which is that i believe anti transmasculinity is a better term altogether. it points out the link with transmisogynoir and how colonised people are policed by it in particular, removing gender expanses to justify a singular white cishet patriarchy nexus. please read her work for an introduction:

i think it is fine for transmascs and men to have language to describe the particular nuances of how transphobia affects us but we can do so much better than something like transandrophobia.

https://www.patreon.com/qittycorner ⬅️this her patreon so pay her if you appreciate her work

#anti transmasculinity #antitransmasculinity #transandrophobia #transmisogyny #transmisogynoir

[notchainedtotrauma]

Rep. Pamela Stevenson (D-Louisville) speaking against the implementation of anti-trans legislation.

#Rep Pamela Stevenson #transmisogyny #racialized transmisogyny #transmisogynoir #transphobia #white supremacy #antiblackness as the foundation of the world #hegemonic violence

[journeysendinlovers]

I'm glad a Black transfem Sudani didn't actually die such a horrible death but this put a gigantic target on the back of every transfem Sudani in need and they will urgently need support. Please send me any gfms or other fundraising links for trans Sudanis I will reblog them. Add in the reblogs any you know as well.

Reminder to donate to SAPA here and KEEP TALKING ABOUT SUDAN

#keep eyes on sudan #transmisogynoir #transmisogyny #transfem #trans women

[sheepgirlmaidtummy]

fucking thank you for mentioning that black and brown and indigenous bloggers (esp trans women) on this website have been nuked since 2016 and nobody gave a shit. this website has been racist and transmisogynistic for years and 99% of the ""community"" on here didn't give a fuck until now.

an indigenous child is dead. transfem bloggers are harassed. nobody cares about that. the white trans community on this site cares about funny jokes and infighting instead of protecting us. avery deserves better. nex deserved better. children are being murdered and people have decided to strip every ounce of racial and transmisogynistic intent from the current wave of violence in favor of jokes.

when do we get to be a part of our own communities? when do we get the support and protection and righteous anger from other trans people? im so fucking tired.

honestly? ive been talking about this stuff for years, and the only reason it got attention is because of what happened to rita being so public, those posts never got the attention they should've and that doesnt surprise me in the slightest.

we arent a part of this "community", we wouldnt be trampled on and forgotten if we were actually important. and whenever we make our own spaces they take that over too. it doesnt matter what happens to us in the process. i hate the performative bullshit i hate the jokes i hate the ignorance i hate that theres nothing left for us.

the only times we're fucking noticed is when somebody murders us and EVEN THEN thats giving too much credit. white people get to joke about this shit while we have to live every day accepting that we'll be left behind. with no way of finding others like us to even feel just a smidgen of comfort. you look at the tag for black trans women before this photomatt bs and theres nothing but our murders. you cant even find shit about all the poc getting banned from this site because nobody cared to document anything let alone Help us.

im really fucking tired of seeing the 'support black trans women!' posts around here. you dont support us when we look you in the eye and Beg. when i got kicked out last year and made a post about it NOBODY batted an eye until rita and afew other popular white transfems reblogged it. and im the lucky one. people would rather be upset at the hammer car than us dying in the streets. i dont even know how to type this all out, just thinking about this makes me furious. i spent the early years of my transition hearing nothing but black trans girls getting murdered in their cars for $100. thats how worth our lives are in this "community". we cant even get that much in donations.

im tired too hun, im really fucking tired

#transgender #predstrogen #transmisogyny #transmisogynoir #trans #i feel like im gonna fucking puke lol i hate how fake you people are #for the people that actually care. that story about a black trans woman being murdered in her car is Real. #she was 17yrs old. i saw that story when i was 16. ive seen more like it before that and since #i cant even find her name because trying to look it up only pulls up more murders. one 2hrs away from me too! awesome!

[rjalker]

Intersectionality flies out the window faster than anything you've ever seen the moment white women and their accomplices think they have another opportunity to present themselves only and most severely oppressed people in the entire world, no matter how many other people they have to throw under the bus and however much evidence they have to ignore to do so.

#antiblackness #racism #ableism #feminism #transfeminism #intersectional feminism #white feminism #transmisogynoir #transmisogyny #transandromisia #misogynoir #exorsexism #trans #transgender #vote blue no matter who #genocide joe #Free Palestine #Palestine #Black Lives Matter

[nitrosplicer]

https://www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/2022/01/10/i-always-dressed-this-way-surfacing-nineteenth-century-trans-history-through-mary-jones

“We know the lurid details of [Mary Jones’s] legal troubles made her a minor recurring figure in local newspapers during her life. One rare glimpse of her own voice comes from court testimony recorded during People vs. Sewally when she was asked why she wore women’s clothing. Jones explained:

“I have have been in the practice of waiting upon Girls of ill fame…they induced me to dress in Women’s Clothes, saying I looked so much better in them and I have always attended parties among the people of my own Colour dressed in this way – and in New Orleans I always dressed this way.”

But beyond the brief, strategically crafted narratives given in court, little of her life, thoughts, feelings, and relationships is known.

Jones’ interactions with the carceral system–and her intermittent, sensationalizedappearances in newspapers throughout the 1830’s to 50’s–must be understood within her specific historical context. The United States' growing urban populations, particularly in northeastern cities such as New York, rendered trans communities increasingly visible, inviting increasing public and political concern with crossdressing. A wave of anti-masquerade laws intended to forestall deceptions across racial lines were passed across the United States during Jones’ lifetime, including New York’s 1845 penal code 240.35(4); they were also quickly marshaled to harass trans people. In 1836, Jones was arrested for stealing the wallet of Robert Haslem, a white man who solicited her sex work. A lithograph published following her conviction for grand larceny depicts Jones as a beautiful woman, elegantly dressed and calmly side-eyeing the viewer. The caption describes her as “The MAN-MONSTER.”… a label that at once denies Jones’ womanhood by suturing her to the category “man” while excluding her from that category through the epithet “monster.”

The name “man-monster” places Jones at the nexus of two continuing histories of attempted dehumanization. Misogynoir constructs Black women as improperly feminine and therefore improperly human. Transmisogynist bigotry dehumanizes trans women by denying manhood and womanhood, thus rendering us neuter–an inhuman “it.” The archival objects that inform us about Jones bear witness to forms of oppression that continue to the present– to an intricate, pernicious, and ongoing mingling of racism, misogyny, and transphobia. The public mockery and carceral violence inflicted on Jones should be understood as analogous to the violent backlash against trans women of color that has followed our current moment of trans visibility – a backlash resulting in 2021 being the deadliest year for trans people on record in the United States. Justice demands that we remember the cruelties Jones suffered as we work to build a world that would make them truly locked in a historical past.”

#trans history #transmisogyny #transmisogynoir

[blackautmedia]

Excellent resources to help build an understanding of transmisogynoir:

#black queer #black lgbtq #black trans lives matter #black transgender #transmisogynoir #misogynoir #transfemme #trans women #black lives matter

[nympthanthe]

i did not just see a post that says “headcanoning this black female character as a trans woman is bad because it’s masculinizing black women” like do you even hear yourself what the fuck is wrong with you

#transmisogyny #transmisogynoir #fandom racism #fandom transmisogyny #terfs dni #this was written by a black transfem before anyone gets on my ass about it im allowed to be upset about this