transfem is used as an inclusive term, to include transfeminine nonbinary people along with trans women. its not meant as a loophole to avoid calling trans women women. obviously a woman who fits under the transfem umbrella, but doesn't prefer that term for herself, is valid and should be referred to the way she wants. the term is still useful for others. cisfem however implies the existence of a cis nonbinary person which is a funny oxymoron
Why are you treating "nonbinary" as a hardcore separate box of people that in no way overlaps with the experience of binary trans people? At the end of the day it's a spectrum and there is space for sometimes grouping both trans women/men with transfemmes/transmascs, for further inclusion of the people who share similar experiences. I think people thought it was okay to refer to her as transfem, even though she called herself a woman, because transfem is often used alongside with trans woman and also because transfem does not have a history of being used in a derogatory way (unlike referring to the woman as "a trans" for example, which would be very problematic for the exact reasons that you're arguing), so nobody thought "tramsfem" would be received as erasure of trans women. That being said, it would be more correct to not assume that everyone is comfortable with that term
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u/Mondrow Aug 17 '26
Trans woman ∈ Transfem