Thread by @JinkiesJerrica

the most exhausting thing about the trans community is how white trans women treat the needs of Black trans women as “inconvenient”

we asked you not use #SayHerName because it’s for an existing movement to raise awareness for Black girls and women whose murders the media ignores

Black women are on the bottom rung of the social ladder in every society we are part of

we’re the most murdered, most raped, the poorest, the most discriminated against in employment

and it worse for Black trans women

yet, when we ask for solidarity, we’re told “not now”

when Black men are murdered by the police, or some racist, it’s all in the news

when white girls and women go missing, or are murdered, it’s all in the news

when Black women, cis and trans, are murdered, who talks about it but us?

and when we make something for ourselves like #SayHerName, so that we can advocate for ourselves, many of you have chosen to co-opt it, and contribute to our erasure in the most ironic way, by using the very movement we designed to fight our invisibility

“there’s a trans genocide happening. race stuff can wait!!”

there is a trans genocide, and Black trans women are the largest portion of the victims

white trans women LOVE to cite the high murder rate trans women face, but fail to mention that Black trans women are the MAJORITY

“Brianna Ghey was just a teen girl!”

so was Ariyanna Mitchell. she was only 17 years old, and was shot to death at a party

but how many of you knew or even care? you co-opt #SayHerName, but won’t even say the names of Black trans girls who are being killed too

Jasmine “Star” Mack, a Black woman, is reportedly the first trans person murdered in 2023

why aren’t white trans women so keen to #SayHerName since you supposedly care so much about trans lives?

what about Black trans lives? or do those not matter to you?

the #SayHerName movement is something Black women, cis and trans, have relied on to be our own advocates, because when it comes down to it, everyone we share an intersection with fails us

be it Black men, white women, or queer people

Black women know we’re all we’ve got

the gross thing is, white trans women will criticize white conservatives for co-opting “woke,” but turn around and co-opt #SayHerName

how is the irony lost on you?

trick question: it isn’t

you know better, but feel absolved because you think being trans nullifies being white

every time Black people craft language to describe our oppression, white folks colonize it

but what else is new?

white folks have a history of stealing from Black folks as if you are entitled to everything we do or create

STOP STEALING OUR SHIT!!

and to be clear, i’d deeply hurt by the murder of Brianna Ghey

i’m a trans woman. i was bullied as a teen being gay

it haunts me that i survived to adulthood, and Brianna didn’t

but getting justice for Brianna doesn’t require erasing the oppression of Black trans women

believe it or not, we can fight for more than one person at a time, and more than one cause at a time

but increasingly, it seems that white trans women on this app have no interest in community and solidarity

at least not a model of those things that includes Black trans women