@lydiaposting @astronema @eris >straight up have been friends with trans femmes from other parts of the country who were homeless at one point and are still teetering on the brink of going back to that state on a constant basis

yeah, I'm literally one of these people, and I'm one of the lucky ones. things could have been a lot fucking worse for me than they were. and I was also "legally homeless" for even longer, sharing a garage with one of my irls in an overcrowded tranny sharehouse that was organized by someone who had been preying on transfems for like a decade and had been accused of sexual assault by dozens of transfems. she would specifically seek out people like the ones living here who were desperate and had nowhere else to go.

shit like this is the reality of being transfem that TMEs don't understand. and, once again, all of us involved were white, which speaks both to how absolutely destitute the reality is for most transfems and how *even still* we're luckier than most. I'm lucky that I'm even still alive to talk about any of this, and that's what the end goal of transmisogyny is, to stop transfems from being able to talk about the political reality of our circumstances as an oppressed class. they do it by silencing and disposing of us socially and ideally also making it so we don't survive at all, because everyone I've ever known who has gone through similar sorts of hardships like me and my irls ends up being a radical, usually baeddel or g/acc or some other t4t-centric politics. they don't want this because they're scared of the righteous revolutionary terror that is coming the more a transfem political consciousness develops.