sickfemmme:

“why hate on trans men when you can hate on cis men?” dang this list could get long but I’ll start small Many trans men have access to male privilege, but are often excluded from critiques of that power structure, though they actively engage in it. Trans men treat misogyny like an accessory that can be put on or taken off in accordance to what is most convenient to them (see: a trans man insisting they were ‘female socialized’ and still somehow face misogyny, but only when it’s to shut down valid criticism, often made by trans women). Similarly, trans men demand unconditional access to women’s spaces, at the expense of trans women. Trans men happily align themselves with MRAs (‘transmisandry’), and TWERFs. Trans men only acknowledge intersectionality in order to downplay their own privilege; Bring up the fact that they are men and they will spend hours letting you know about the intersection of being trans and being a man. Then they turn around and ignore their relative privilege within the trans community, and any other privilege (like white privilege- how many times have you heard ‘I’m not privileged! I’m trans’ from a white trans dude? I stopped counting) they might have. Trans men dominate positive representation and trans narratives, but insist that trans women receive ‘more attention’ (and by ‘attention’, they mean ‘violence and ridicule’ apparently) Basically trans men pull the same shit as cis men but expect an automatic get-out-of-jail-free card for being trans- and most of the time, they get it.

Important commentary, and a reminder that we need to center women-identified struggles in our praxis, no matter what our angle is. Women, and especially tr-ns women, come first, always.

(via jouissancelover)