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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 10h

Trans women are always expected to be the perfect ally of all the other minorities, even when this is not reciprocated (or even antireciprocated)

And this behavior is self-policed *internally by our own community*, via shunning & mass outrage ("look at the bad tranny who doesn't hold opinion X!")

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 10h

Trans women are always expected to be the perfect ally of all the other minorities, even when this is not reciprocated (or even antireciprocated)

And this behavior is self-policed *internally by our own community*, via shunning & mass outrage ("look at the bad tranny who doesn't hold opinion X!")

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 14h

Cis lesbians are often framed as "trans inclusive" because they think of their they/them butch friend, in polls.

But besides misleading "wholesome" polls, look around you.
Which LGBT demographic seems to always be involved in stirring up anti-transfem hatred?

Not all of them, but many of them.

Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · May 21

Also cis gay men who hold trans-negative views mostly mind their own business.
Lesbians who hold the same views organize international trans-eliminationist campaigns, organize to remove trans healthcare, and constantly monsterize us.
At least wrt the public face of the two groups.

Sophie Asimov @sophieasimov.bsky.social · May 19

Cis lesbians are often framed as "trans inclusive" because they think of their they/them butch friend.

I'm skeptical of there being a particularly wide gap if we narrowed to perspectives of specifically trans women.

Trans women really do exist outside the trans community in these things.

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 19h

In the UK the police literally knocks on your door if you make a "rude" or "offensive" tweet.

Hey leftists, just because you got psyop'd into "free speech is bad", doesn't mean you have to double down with such crazy authoritarian "the govt should restrict speech" policies

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 22h

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 20h

Cis lesbians literally earn more on average than straight cis women.

But in a certain current of "transfeminism", you keep seeing trans women simping for cis lesbians under the guise of "intersectionality" (truth: being seen as a good valid woman/lesbian by them)

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 20h

They're the most coddled and accepted LGBT demographic by public opinion,
yet even many of us trans women feel the urgent need to jump to their defense whenever someone implies that the lesbian community might have a transphobia problem. Truly pickme behavior.

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Daisy @daisygeekytgirl.bsky.social · 22h

“It’s progressive and inspiring.”

Honestly, what rights do cis lesbians not have in Australia? I’m still getting harassed far more for being trans but sure murdering trans people makes you a lesbian icon I guess.

Benjanun Sriduangkaew @benjanun.bsky.social · 22h

Wait what? In the middle of her space quest she makes a stop to behead a trans woman?

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 1d

A whole massive cluster on this site constantly goes "cissexual is a slur" (very resembling of "cis is a slur") and constantly downplays the importance of medical transition, yet no labels

But the transsexuals who call out their anti-transsexuality? Enbyphobia of course. Enbyphobia==Cissexualphobia

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 1d

..and normalized by every mainstream trans/queer org.

Every community wiki/tool/resource event (look how much Asuka worries about "enbyphobia", but waters down anti-transsexuality into a generic "transphobia").

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 1d

Also it's insane that it's even remotely controversial to have words for people who transition (transsexual) and for the outsider group (cissexual).

But binary/non-binary, that allows them to plausibly-deniably larp as being extra-oppressed? That one is 100% fine, normalized, and 1/

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 1d

Tbh I think it's a strategic ambiguity they use

When they portray non-binarism as fragile/extra-margin.zed, they subtly imply it's about non-transition

When you point out transsexuals face many challenges not faced by non-transitioners, they defend themselves with "but some enbies transition too!"

Alyssa Returns @astralexistence.bsky.social · 2d

It’s been saying many times but I really think that treating nonbinary as meaning cissexual is one of the worst mishaps in the history of trans activism

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 1d

>All the characters are long-haired twinks
>The only transfem character is somehow as masculine as Peg Leg Pete

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 1d

(Not real btw)

Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 1d

Reminds of this

A fake Visual Studio download page from Microsoft.com that says "Thank you for downloading Visual Studio". In the background, two men are about to kiss each other

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 1d

Okay but a trans woman that reacts poorly gets to make a post with 10 upvotes or so;

a cis woman that reacts poorly gets to socially murder you.

That's where the symmetry breaks.

Sable, Sapphic Wet Nightmare 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 2d

Trans women often find themselves feeling predatory for interest in cis women, but from a lot of recent conversations with cis women I learned that they often feel predatory for their interest in trans women as well

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Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 3d

*very serious gender and sexuality studies academic who just published a 300pg book on trans people in oceania without running it by a single one of them voice* the real colonialism is thinking you, a filthy white transsexual, have anything in common with the noble [local word meaning trannyfaggot]

Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 3d

its wild how across time, space, and culture we keep finding trans people describing having nearly the exact same experiences trans people have today and academics will bend over backwards to explain why they cannot be trans and how its actually offensive and degrading to even suggest that

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 1d

Okay but a trans woman that reacts poorly gets to make a post with 10 upvotes or so;

a cis woman that reacts poorly gets to socially murder you.

That's where the symmetry breaks.

Sable, Sapphic Wet Nightmare 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 2d

Trans women often find themselves feeling predatory for interest in cis women, but from a lot of recent conversations with cis women I learned that they often feel predatory for their interest in trans women as well

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 2d

They need to see everything thru the lenses of feminism.

Feminism doesn't contemplate femboys ⇒ femboys le bad, I need to virtue signal to show that I'm a good™ feminist

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 3d

the fact that blocking a user hides their reply for everyone, not just the user who blocked them, seems like an extremely toxic pattern for collective sense-making.

1. user makes [xyz claim]
2. another user corrects them
3. blocked, hidden

it should be explicitly shown as hidden instead

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 3d

"[Don't forget about] folx who don't pass" is a quite dishonest phrase that they often use to lump together cissexuals/theygabs who literally don't want to transition; with dysphoric trans women who wish they had transitioned earlier, or that they could afford FFS.

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 3d

Also note how the article quasi-vilifies not only "passing", but also the mere fact of going on HRT.

More proof that "passing/non-passing" is in those tenderqueer contexts also a euphemism/dysphemism for "going on HRT" (or not)

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 3d

Like, apart from the very cringe / bad-optics name and affiliations, I find it a fairly benign phenomenon.

No worse than an "Ex-TERF FtM community". Like, hey at least now they're happy.

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 3d

I read their manifesto/subreddit.

It's a curious mix of
- g/Acc blackpaper-style "Masculinity is obsolete/undesirable in an advanced society, more males should transition"
- Egg / pro-transition / pro-HRT memes
- Actual useful and practical info about transition

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 3d

Oh look, more fifth-columnism from our very valid allies at Pride[.]com

>Wanting to pass is pornographic misogynistic eurocentrism

Transmaxxing is also harmful to the trans community because it places the focus on medical transition and “passing,” despite those not being a goal for every trans or gender expansive person. “It is an unexamined view that is deeply embedded in a ‘one-sided view’ of gender presentation,” Sipling explains. “Often, this transmedicalist perspective assumes that ‘correct’ gender presentation is a white, European presentation, and one unfortunately shaped by misogynistic and pornographically-fueled views of what women ‘should’ look like.”

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 3d

>Destruction of property is important for achieving our goals
>It will totally not create backlash because... theory!! revolution!! read marx!!1!

Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 24d

C'mon do some terrorism against nazis/transphobes!
The leftist revolution can't wait!

Meme of the guy with the stick, but it's an FBI agent

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