Baeddels - a small group of separatist transfems who reclaimed ye olde transmisogynistic slur but have barely had a real presence in a decade—now taken up as a thing for a group of people to dismiss any trans woman who talks about transmisogyny by transmascs as hateful radicals.
According to this definition, any transfem who talks about the fact transmascs (alongside all other transmisogyny exempt ppl) benefit from transmisogyny, you are a Baeddel! So basically for them, any transfem that understands how transmisogyny actually works is a Baeddel 🤔
Idk, using a weird old transmisogynistic slur to dismiss any transfem who talks about the specific intersection of oppression only we face seems pretty transmisogynistic!! 🤷♀️
I have transmascs in my life who I love, who try their best to be aware of how transmisogyny operates & are responsive when I point something out as someone they care about—just like we should all be with any other system of oppression with which we are the benefactors of!
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I’ve never met a trans person who doesn’t like people just because they have quote in quote “detransitioned”—we just don’t like the handful that loudly align themselves with movements that hate us to try to deny us the care they got to consensually access.
I strongly believe it is much more horrific for someone to non-consensually go through the wrong puberty than to consensually choose to—it is actually good to have a society where people have bodily autonomy and to be able to make choices they could regret.
By associating all people who “detransition” with the handful of folks who make themselves mascots for the transphobic hate movement, you are actually the one who is being “detransphobic”! Most who “detransition” in some way are still in trans community and/or still trans!