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"It is true that trans women faces misogyny in-so-far as they attempt integrating into what is conceived as a normative womanhood"

This is kinda an interesting line. Is this actually something unique about trans women? Do cis women not integrate into a normative womenhood? When I think of the trans women Ive met and compare them to cis women, the cis women are much more normative. Is there something more natural about cis women's integration into normative womenhood and something unnatural about trans women doing so?

Im giving this feedback knowing Filler is one of those trans anarchist projects, but Im curious why trans women are singled out in such a clumsy way. Whenever I read writing like this, I wonder who the author is and what their experiences of gender are, despite how popular death of the author crap is, writing is too often just an alienated one way conversation. . Sometimes its easy to guess, like here Id guess this person is a cis woman or a theyfab.

Is using hormones somehow more of an act than undergoing natal puberty while making the active choice to not intervene while you know the possibility to get on T is there?

And honestly do trans women only begin to experience misogyny when they integrate into normative womanhood? Becuase that contradicts how a lot of trans women describe their experiences pre transition and the misogynist nature of their coercive birth assignments and gendered policing. If you know yourself to be a trans women and have yet to start transition is there nothing at all misogynist about the way the world classifies you and relates to you? Being a trans man, Im not sure misogyny is strictly based on how people read your gender.

Im glad that this piece doesnt fall into the usual gender "nihilist" pitfall of "if we all become androgenous and use they them pronouns we destroy gender"