#tw transmisogynoir

[fiapple]

“Ashley Burton, a Black transgender woman, was shot and killed on the night of April 11 in Atlanta, Georgia. She was 37 years old.

Early on Tuesday morning, according to police, Burton’s body was found outside in a breezeway near her home at the Elite at City Park Apartments, as the Georgia Voice reported. Police reports state that Burton was shot inside her apartment, then fled outside, where she collapsed and was killed.

‘She was a very sweet young lady,’ Burton’s best friend told local FOX affiliate WAGA. ‘She was very full of life really. It was always smiles and laughs with us whenever we work together.’ Burton’s body was found outside in a breezeway near her home at the Elite at City Park Apartments, as the Georgia Voice reported. Police reports state that Burton was shot inside her apartment, then fled outside, where she collapsed and was killed.

According to her cousin Ivory Carter, Burton was a hairstylist and makeup artist who moved from her home in South Carolina to advance her career.

‘Why her?’ Carter asked, rhetorically, in an interview with news station 11 Alive. ‘Why would it be somebody who’s trying to better herself, who’s trying to do right by people, who’s trying to help?’ Carter told reporters that whoever killed Burton also took her cell phone, and believes that the killer was someone Burton knew and trusted.”

[magicalenbysarah]

White Cis woman(the chili lady) claiming a Black Trans woman is responsible for a video of her pet pig being taken down and encouraging her 100k followers to harass and threaten her.

[cattyraejepsen]

PSA #TaylorCasey

[feelingemotjons]

a black trans women is in need of help

@miracleon63rdstreet is a black trans women who has gone through absolute hell and back. She is currently in a lot of debt and she and her cousin don’t have enough money to feed her cats and her cousin’s kids. She is living with her cousin and her cousin’s electricity bill is due on the 10th

if anyone could give her money on her cashapp, venmo, paypal, chime, or gofundme it would be greatly appreciated

[communistkenobi]

They put Tayy Dior’s name in quotes as if that was a fun little nickname her friends called her. It places emphasis on the fact that her name is ‘unofficial,’ and given that legal name changes in places like the US can be expensive, difficult & time consuming, the ‘unofficial’ nature of transgender peoples’ names is commonplace. Using deadnames of trans people in media reports is an endorsement of the difficult nature of this process.

It also highlights the absurdity of appealing to ‘official’ legal records of name and gender marker - which official records? even when you go through a legal name change process, it’s not a single application that changes it everywhere. At least in my experience in Canada, and I believe this is the case in other federated states, you have to separately change your photo ID(s), your birth certificate, your federal/national records, your tax records, your employment and tenant records, your bank records, your billing records, and so on. These are all separate applications/appointments. And legal name and gender marker are separate applications. I had to essentially obtain a set of permission slips from a provincial office that allowed me to change my name and gender marker on municipal, provincial, and federal records. There isn’t one single ‘official’ record that informs all other records of your ‘real’ name and gender marker, it is a collection of diffused departments & offices that do not communicate with one another and must be altered one at a time by the individual themselves. In many cases, states retain a record of your original name and gender marker even after applying for a change, meaning it is literally impossible to ever fully change your name and gender everywhere, administratively speaking.

So, which record is the ‘official’ record for trans people? Cis people treat ‘official’ records of legal names and gender markers as if they are uniform, centralised, and coherent in order to contrast the ‘unofficial’ nature of a trans person’s “preferred” name and pronouns, to highlight the fundamental fraudulence of our lives that go against the rational objective nature of the state, but there is in many states no single official record, for trans and non-trans people alike. That is because when cis people insist on calling trans people by their deadnames and ungender them, they are not actually referring to official records - as official records can conflict, and there is no agreement on which single record is the authoritative one - but are instead treating sex and name assignment at birth as if it is sacrosanct. This first ritual of naming, of gendering, and of recording the results of this ritual is the actual ‘official record’ they are referring to, a ritual that can never be altered or forsaken.

Tayy Dior’s name is not a nickname, it is not a quotation to insert into her “real” “official” deadname, it is not a preference. It is her name, and the media - even “trans inclusive” media - is making sure that it is, at best, the second thing they call her as they gleefully report on her violent murder

[clowncaraz]

a transandrophobic's guide to transandrophobia

a small and short guide that oversimplifies things so even normies can understand. basically "don't say these things, be normal about queer men."

what is transandrophobia?

transandrophobia was coined around 2017 by a user named Saint (st-dionysus). it's a term describing multiple ways transmascs, trans men, or genderqueer men experience a form of androphobia that has the main goal of separating manhood from trans identities.

what is transandrophobia made of?

transandrophobia is made up of transmisogyny and androphobia. the transmisogyny is the ideas that trans men are either women in disguise, traitors or alien to womanhood, or lost little girls fetishizing lesbians. the focus on trans men as confused women is to assume that women cannot be anything but little innocent girls or servants. if a woman is not of those categories, then they are traitors, snakes, and are not real/pretending to be women. we see this in all sorts of spaces. if a woman is not subservient and tolerable, then they must be a "bitch," or a man in hiding. for trans men, this narrative means that they are failing womanhood because they too are not tolerable or subservient.

androphobia is the fear of men or the patriarchy. it affects women more than it affects men, and most trauma resulting from it comes from direct or indirect sexual violence or misogyny. androphobia in terms of trans men would be the fear of manhood or isolation of manhood from transness. a common pushback against androphobia and transandrophobia seems to be the idea that trans men are just trans, not men. they aren't women, but they aren't men either, so they stay in the gray zone of being defined by their agab or their sex traits.

the isolation of manhood from transness is a tactic used to correctly gender trans men without having to acknowledge their gender as being related to manhood, even if that fear is towards those who uphold the patriarchy - which trans men, by identity, do not fit in the patriarchy. it is why androphobia is known as irrational or abnormal, as all phobias are, but isn't recognized as hate or discrimination. when trans men and cis men are perceived as the same type of manhood, the assumption becomes that trans men are of the patriarchal system instead of being completely outside of it.

why androphobia and not misandry?

misandry was created to be used as a gotcha towards feminism. no one wants that. misandry is real, but is not represented in the term. instead, the subsequent discrimination and hate of men would stem from androphobia's fear. fear is the reason many people say they hate something that could cause it, and it's not irrational to fear, but the consistent anxiety and distrust leading to narratives that affect men who are not of the patriarchy is a phobia.

no one hates cis men for being men, it is hate of their ability to use their cis status and patriarchal power. cis manhood is preferred, it is widely accepted, it is natural.. trans men on the other hand are hated for being failed cis men and confused women, who are then hated for being related to cis men by being men incorrectly.

you might be transandrophobic if..

...you see trans men as the cis men of the trans community. this is a running joke in some spaces, but it perpetuates the idea that since cis men are of a higher power due to privilege, that trans men must have the same privileges and the same status due to them being men. this is not how you affirm transmasculine identities and frankly, it's downright gross. when you begin to see trans men as trans men instead of removing their manhood from their transness, you see that the manhood is inseparable from our transness and is in close quarters to how our identity functions. without that manhood, we are not trans and we are no longer of that community - we are then lumped into three categories; "non-men," nonbinary, or afab. when trans men say that we do not want our manhood to be reduced/separated from our transness, we mean that the other terms to categorize us are inaccurate, false, or derogatory.

...you don't think theyfab is a slur. it was made specifically to go after those who were assigned female at birth and used they/them primarily. this affects most if not all trans people who are genderqueer/nonbinary and were assigned female. it's a slur and is used that way.

...you don't say trans man, but instead say "tme." tme is transmisogyny exempt, and is known to be used as a stand in for anyone not presenting as a woman. it's a bioessentialist/intersexist term alongside it's counterpart; tma. these terms leave out and actively discriminate against intersex bodies and identities - and if pointed out - those who use the terms tme/tma will have a meltdown.

...say more slurs. if any of this is in your daily or private vocabulary and you actively refer to trans men or transmascs like this, there is a problem.

...you position our HRT or manhood as poison. i don't have to explain this that much but would it be acceptable for a trans man to say that estrogen is a poison and womanhood is essentially harmful by nature? if not, that might be a reason as to not do the same to trans men who need it.

...you position our oppression as lesser or never experienced. trans women face transandrophobia. that's the truth. the fear of supposed men in women spaces is one of the most rampant forms of prejudice against trans women.anyone can experience transandrophobia and transmisogyny. anyone can experience exorsexism. the main point of it is what it is supposed to be attacking. transmisogyny attacks womanhood that is trans or queer. transandrophobia attacks manhood by removing it from transness.

...you ignore the quarrels of trans men against rampant transandrophobia that seem to revolve around fears of being excluded due to not being feminine or woman enough, which the community seems to gravitate towards.

...you make transandrophobic claims that don't make sense at all.

[intersectionalpraxis]

Imane Khelif is an amazing athlete. She spent 8 years officially training in order to compete on this world stage (and this was done consistently -back to back/like every day of the week at a boxing gym) and it is incredible what's she's accomplished so far.

I also wanted to add here as well that EVERYONE on the planet comes in different shapes and sizes. And that our bodies have and will continue to change with age/and time -and whether through our genetics, hormone conditions and fluctuations, or our overall focus on fitness/etc -being muscular because of training for a sport is one kind of fucking body type and apart from it aesthetically not being exclusive to cis men, if Imane was a white woman (as many have pointed out), would she have been slandered, harassed and belittled online? No. In fact there are plenty of women athletes with Imane's exact body type or who are more muscular and who no one bats an eyelash at.

I love Imane SO much and it's bittersweet I got to know her as a result of those trying to globally humiliate her online -but I am so immensely proud of her and I hope her present and future continues to be very bright.

[mittenhater]

a black bipolar/schizophrenic man was run over by a police car and buried in an unmarked grave; his family was not notified of his death until 7 months later even though he had identification on him when he died.

a black couple’s infant child was decapitated during childbirth when hospital staff used excessive force to try to deliver the child vaginally instead of pursuing an emergency c-section; afterwards, the hospital mislead the parents and tried to cover up their negligence.

a black trans woman was pushed onto subway tracks by her abusive boyfriend and had to have portions of both legs amputated; although she survived, 50% percent of trans murder victims in the us in 2023 were black trans women.

most recently, a black schizophrenic woman was executed in her own home by a police officer; she had called the police to protect her from a possible prowler and was instead murdered in cold blood. her last words were an apology.

these are just a few of the incidents that have happened within the last two years (i.e. under a democratic president), and yet i come on this app and still see dozens if not hundreds of posts and tags every day of white people (both usamerican and non-usamerican) being condescending and outright cruel towards people who are choosing not to vote. calling nonvoters apathetic, immature, and stupid and questioning how anyone would be unable to understand why it's necessary to "vote blue matter who".

so let me put this simply because i know how hard it is for white people on here to listen to black and brown people who aren't just mindlessly agreeing with everything they say. no matter who gets elected as president in the upcoming us election, people of color in the united states and abroad (particularly the global south) will feel the brunt of the consequences. whether it's explicit violence like police brutality and the multiple genocides that are happening currently or it's the implicit biases that help perpetuate white supremacy, me and my peers are being targeted and we are scared. not only of the violence and discrimination but that our struggle will go unnoticed, or worse, be manipulated and used to prop up the very people that are facilitating our oppression. i'm not going to come on here and tell anyone who to vote for or not vote for, but jesus christ i am begging for white liberals to take their fingers out of their ears and understand why black and brown people don't want to vote for politicians that want them dead.

[punkeropercyjackson]

Hmmm,yeah no if you're not a sa survivor and you have a c.nc kink you're a bad person in the same way a racist having racist mentality is a bad person even if they don't 'actually' do hate crimes and 'their black friends said it's okay to do that to them specifically' and 'only have thoughts' and i'm using that comparison because antiblackness and sa have a deep rooted inherently intertwined history,including that every kind of 'dark homoeroticism' on here has been used on black people(sex slaves,whites eating black flesh out of not seeing us as human,forced incest/inbreeding,csa played as forbidden romance,etc).If you're a sa survivor who developed a c.nc kink as coping,that's morally neutral and you shouldn't be made to feel bad over it but also you need to know how to act,ESPECIALLY if you're on the older side and cyberbullying even just with vagueposting sex repulsed sa survivors is sexual harrasment.Sa has always been an act of bigotry,be it the antiblackness i mentioned or the entitlement to 'punish' transgender bodies or to 'teach' unconsenting mentally disabled people 'what they should know' or one of the countless other bases it covers.Those 'thought crimes' were present in them white american soldiers who got comfort women out of what they thought asian women were and to them are supposed to be like too.Trying to tie sexual aspects of any kind to ANY minority is harmful stereotyping,even if it's 'good faith'.Think before you kink.Sexual liberation is supposed to be for the ones who fuck nasty,not the nasty fuckers

[thisismisogynoir]

I will always love this scene. Go Elektra! Read that bitch!

[serana666]

Taps sign once again

[emotional-moss]

one of the most disgusting things i keep seeing from transphobes, specifically folks who are super against gender affirming surgeries, is them using actual people’s photos expressing joy in the aftermath of a helpful and consensual surgery and then use that to talk about “mutilation” and “predation.” like what the fuck, that is a person’s body you’re talking about, and more than that you’ve used a specific person as an example, taken their joy and twisted it into something disgusting. if you do this i genuinely hope spiders crawl up your ass

[theboyatthebustop]

so let me get this straight;

jkr decided to jump on a hatetrain that is accusing an Algerian boxer of being trans/intersex because she beat somebody who was more femme presenting than her

[this-whole-situation]

Hello, I’m sorry I’m in your dm, I know you don’t know me , but I’m a Nigerian trans woman who got attacked and stabbed by three men and didn’t get help from the hospital, police, or people around(proof and full story on my pinned page), that is to show you how transphobic and homophobic Nigerians can be, now I’m reaching out cause I need help to move out of this unsafe environment, please donate if you can and kindly reblog if you can’t,feel free to ask for further proof, you can even call me if you want to, my Dm is open for your requests, just help me get out of here please, I’ve a strong feeling they will try again, I don’t wanna be another story on the blogs that people will laugh at instead of finding justice for, few stories of how Nigerian LGBTQ community have been mistreated are all over my page. Please consider helping. My life is at risk, and I need urgent help. I've been stuck on 600$, and my goal is 800$. Please, I'm so close. Help me get there 🙏

I’m very sorry of what happened to you. I will share your post.

[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.

[trannyfutch]

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