@ammayday @YKantRachelRead that's pretty much the kinda shit I've been on for like.. a decade? it's obviously become more of an immediate concern since this second Trump term but I've always taken it as a given that there's not really any realistic path forward for being a trans person in these times other than toughing the fuck up and figuring out how to survive, and the best way to maximize our ability to survive is by also working together and forming whatever networks we can. but that being said it feels like I've been on this shit for so long while watching more and more transfems go from being the babytrans phase of gullibility, believing that you can simply transition and exist as a transfem without effectively having to exist thenceforth in a state of constant total war with the world around you, to then experiencing some catastrophic consequence of transmisogyny like being HAL'd (if they aren't privileged enough to avoid this entirely) and if they survive it they're left a broken, traumatized, isolated wreck and usually are more susceptible to then experiencing repeat abuse and trauma.

I've been trying and doing what I can but like this shit is not working. even if only on a small-scale local level of affinity groups or whatever, we all need to get way more organized than just helping each other out in like mutual aid type ways (even if it's real mutual aid and not just giving each other $20). like we need to become way more militant about claiming space from opportunists and transmisogynists, we need to raise consciousness and radicalize more girls early on, and we need to be able to take care of our own so that the problematic trannies aren't left to fend for themselves.

even this is all the bare minimum too because it doesn't address any of our material problems but like we're really at square zero it feels like where we as a class of people are being systematically disintegrated, and the thing I have worried most about isn't the hypothetical "what if they put us in camps" shit (which frankly I doubt the capacity of this administration to pull off something that logistically complex) but that no one recognizes we're in a war of attrition and does not have the correct strategic responses to it.

SCOTUS has, for most of its existence, been a body that codifies institutional and stochastic violence against marginalized people. the only reason why libs expect them to do anything other than that is because, for a handful of decades, the liberal majority actually did the opposite of that in certain high profile cases (but not in others).

that said, I don't want to hear any more takes a la "trans women in blue states will be safe" or "white trans women are white first" or whatever. we're long past the point where we should be entertaining radlibs engaging in preening behavior on social media. ALL American trans women and transfems are now second-class citizens at the federal level, and that's not changing any time soon.

we can either accept that reality and build from here, or we can continue to entertain radlibs' attempts to "well actually" transfemininity into a second-tier identity issue. but we can't have both.

@anemone on the small scale it means institutions are legally allowed to block trans people from participating in (sex/gender-segregated) activities as their chosen gender . on a broader scale it seems to illegitimize trans as a sex/gender class, so we are defined only by our assigned sex at birth . this also effectively erases discrimination against us on the gender level (because gender doesn't legally exist, only sex) . this means that transmisogyny can't exist, because we're just men, you see! which tbh is the status quo anyway . this ruling pretty much affirms the status quo of how trans people are treated by the law so we're still just as fucked as ever, hooray!

yeah this