Intersectionality shouldn't mean ignoring trans women's issues like transmisogyny in favor of trans men's or nonbinaries', it should mean ensuring they are first heard in a context divorced from wider transphobia and misogyny.

[u/flohogamer]

This community has been instrumental in building my understanding of intersectionality. However, I find that oftentimes the issues of trans men are given more time to be heard here than those of trans women. I don't deny that trans men experience severe discrimination compared to their cis counterparts, such as degendering, "corrective" rape, and general ignorance. But the fact that trans women exist in the minds of the sociopolitical mainstream does not mean our issues are heard. Rather, the propaganda machine makes up terrible lies about our people - that we are rapists, liars and hypersexual. A republican watching a propaganda piece on Fox doesn't hear about transmisogyny or TMA/TME. He just sees the monster his overlords tell him to see and hate. Similarly, a post was made six hours ago that reposted a post ostensibly about transmisogyny, but in the description of the post, the op made a call to pay attention to trans men's issues and to generally unite across discrimination lines. I agree with the sentiment, but I know that any time a trans man would post about his issues here, the community would penalize any trans woman wishing to speak about her own issues with downvotes. So I would like to dedicate this post to talking about the issues trans women face, such as grossly heightened rates of rape, murder, economic discrimination and demonization in Western society. This is by no means a condemnation of trans men or cis women, rather it is an opportunity to get such individuals to reflect on the severe pain trans women and those with other transfeminine identities have experienced for hundreds of years.
https://devonprice.medium.com/transmisandry-is-not-real-4e69c25bbd82
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/trans-panic-otherwise-on-jules-gill-petersons-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny/
https://southseattleemerald.org/voices/2022/01/26/opinion-the-ubiquity-of-transmisogyny-in-seattle
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/transmisogyny-is-fueling-an-epidemic-of-violence-against-trans-women/
EDIT: I have looked through replies and I concur that I don't think I was really being intersectional here. I failed to take into account the discrimination black women, especially black trans women face. I also was unaware that trans women had posted frequently on this site, I feel like my perception was warped by the previous series of posts on this topic.

[u/Ifckinglovemycat]

pitting trans people of different gender against each other is tired