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Debated even making a post about this, but it really sucks that the oversexulization of trans women is treated like online micro-discourse. Transfeminity being seen purely as sexual is the basis fueling a HUGE percentage of the transphobia sweeping through the US and UK. Behind almost every single bathroom bill and legislation defining being trans as obscene is a politician saying something akin to “we need to protect womens spaces from dangerous biological males who will sneak in and sexually assault them.” People automatically assuming trans women to be sexual predators is exactly why groomer became the go-to insult on the right.

So of course trans women on tumblr get mad when you say “why are you posting about misogyny when we could be fucking? 😋” or respond to them asking you to be normal about trans women with a “YESSS I LOVE GIRLCOCK step on me tgirls 😍” It’s perpetuating the same problem in the other direction.

and to be clear, it "going the other way" is also a massive part of the problem- I think we were either the second or third biggest category on PornHub last year, Alex Jones was caught with transfem porn tabs open, and it's a simple fact that we are at risk of sexual assault.

a lot of cis men (not all, but more than you probably think) have a desire for transfeminine bodies, and that desire often leads to shame, which is externalized as violence against us and circles back to viewing us as sexual objects more than people.

i've said this before- the sexualization and fetishization of the transfeminine body is just a huge part of transmisogyny that so many tme queer people i see and talk to just... don't seem to pick up on?