TransAdvocate

I tend to expect that Heart over at Women’s Spaces/The Margins to come unhinged by the transgender community. Her recent diatribe about transgender people:

My gut, experience, knowledge tell me that the group of persons which will receive the absolute least sympathy and concern is female persons. We are trafficked, prostituted, enslaved, raped, all of the time by all sorts of men, ho hum, no big deal. But if it’s a boy or a transgender person, suddenly that’s a whole nother level.

is covered pretty well by Lisa over at Questioning Transphobia. But something Lisa said, hit me hard enough that it left a lingering imprint. She said:

While I wouldn’t accuse Heart of trying to colonize trans women experiences (she wants to deny that our experiences are valid, not claim them for her own - she only appropriates cis women experiences), she does try to dominate, disenfranchise, and other trans women whenever possible. She aggressively shouts us down when we claim to have experiences in common with cis women. She tells us that we’re not allowed to use goddess symbolism, she insists (sometimes) that we are men, or acting as men, or acting on male privilege. Further, she cheers on regular posters who make even more outrageous and transphobic statements, while claiming all along that she doesn’t believe or think those things because she never said them.

But she whines that trans people dare to remember our dead.

Those lingering thoughts of that post came back to me when I saw this youtube video:

Dontcha just love when someone else can appropriate your existence, and whittle it down to nothing?

Silly tranny, feminism isn’t about equality, but who’s the most and least dominant. In the oppression Olympics, ya ain’t shit.