We need housing, money, jobs, defense. Trans people are dying of "you're so brave" and "you're so valid" without an ounce of goddamn backup.

We're at war. We need you to act like it.

internally at Meta:
-trans and nonbinary themes stripped from Messenger
-enforcement policy now allows for the denial of trans people's existence
-tampons removed from men's restrooms
-DEI programs shuttered
-Kaplan briefed top conservative influencers the night before policy changes were announced

The thing with trans woman exclusionary "AFAB" rhetoric is that when you can see it everywhere, particularly in housing discrimination against trans women. So often people will post housing ads like "LGBT friendly household. Beautiful backyard, free parking, pet friendly, no tgirls.

"AFAB" as it is typically used as term/category in 2023 serves little purpose other than to reify bioessentialism and signal that trans women in particular are excluded and unwelcome.

It's not subtle to us at all.

I hope that someday people will start to understand that trans women actually have very good reasons for calling out the bioessentialist ways that so many "allies" use ASAB language instead of just calling us misogynists for having pattern recognition.