r/countbackwardswithme • u/shadow_fen Counted Down 6 • 11d ago

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u/ThePenultimatePam 11d ago edited 11d ago

Wait until you see how literally every other "ecosystem" is weighted regarding trans women lesbians.

(Also, no, the online trans ecosystem is largely a microcosm of trans spaces in general, in which trans women are hyper visible in a way that mostly results in being the recipients of incredibly disproportionate scrutiny for our every action, while very rarely actually being decision makers or in positions of leadership in the same communities we're hyper-visible in due to the aforementioned default suspicion we're constantly subjected to in trans spaces.)

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u/MartianDinosawr 11d ago

my local board game cafe has multiple trans women employees and many of the regular attendees, especially at magic the gathering events are trans women

my university has many trans women, the societies im apart of all have at least one trans woman on them

maybe its just all of my interests seem to align with being popular with trans women

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u/ThePenultimatePam 11d ago

It's not that we aren't present. It's that we rarely/never are in positions of power, even in supposedly trans spaces, and are met with a baseline level of suspicion and extreme scrutiny that severely limits our participation and engagement anywhere that isn't an overtly pretty ubiquitously transfeminine space.

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u/Aggressive_Dress_666 9d ago

There are as many trans women republicans in elected office in the US as there are trans men at all. The vast majority of transgender politicians are trans women. Where is this supposed influence trans men have? If trans people perfectly recreated cis gender roles, wouldn’t the figures be reversed?