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This morning I became aware of the present drama. This post is not directed at the topic itself, but around the surrounding conversation, and I'm not naming names.

But in trying to understand the present drama, I was mostly having to sift through posts erasing trans black people and having to read through posts saying things like: transfems are more likely to be fash/nazi because of "male socialization," I read people saying that it's offensive if trans people in the US want to flee oppression/genocide because other refugees have it worse, I read that trans oppression is only a recent thing, as if our entire history isn't riddled with genocide and erasure, I read that the oppression trans people experience isn't that significant and never has been. It kept going.

Literally just a morning full of transphobia, had nothing to do with the actual topic except, maybe, to justify transphobic rhetoric. Why is it when even legitimate concerns are raised, it always comes to this?