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On Representation

freedominwickedness:

The way that trans men and other CAFAB trans people constantly claim that they are “underrepresented” within the LGBT community and deserve more resources is literally a textbook example of CAFAB trans people exhibiting male privilege over not only CAMAB trans people but also cis women.

Because the reality is that the overwhelming majority of Western transphobia specifically targets CAMAB trans people (including a staggering 98% of all anti-trans violence), and yet substantially more resources already cater primarily or exclusively to CAFAB trans people. And yet trans males constantly demand more, even to the point of demanding that women’s spaces exclude trans women and decenter cis women.

Moreover, the behavior of CAFAB trans people in this regard precisely mirrors the behavior of cis males, whom studies have shown consistently perceive women as “dominating the conversation” anytime we speak more than 30% of the time. So when CAFAB trans people claim that they are “underrepresented” in trans spaces, what they are really expressing is anger that they are not being permitted to monopolize and dominate trans spaces the way cis men monopolize and dominate mainstream spaces.

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    this
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    I agree with almost all of that. The fact that not disclosing one’s casab can be a safety issue for cafab and camab...
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    ^
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    So according to freedominwickedness- trans* people should accept their birth sex as relevant to their lives, and aren’t...
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    I do not want to get into debating appropriate use of “Coercively Assigned” terminology in this post because it would...
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    Can we please stop using the phrase ‘Coercievly Assigned Gender At Birth’ incorrectly to describe trans people when, to...
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    Perfectly written.
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