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As I search through a few of my past archives from a couple years ago, every now and then a post jumps out to me as still being very relevant today. This post seems to be a contradiction in terms…except it is unfortunately not.
First of all here is the post:
“ Even though it sounds like a contradiction in terms but in the transgender community you can definitely think transphobia is possible. It could come from two sources.
The first of which are left over male vestiges from a Mtf gender transition. Take Caitlynn Jenner for example. Knowing fair well the incoming Republican candidate was anti trans, she still supported him anyhow. She couldn’t do away with all her previous male life, even if it meant protecting future transgender rights. Most certainly cis women support Republican ideas too but does their phobia’s come from different places than men. Most people think women are the kinder and more gentle gender aren’t always correct. I have known too many trans women who still can’t leave their male past behind for any number of reasons.
I think too, much of this relates to the “I’m more transer than thou” attitude, another reflection of latent transphobia.
In our earliest cross dressing days, many of us (including me) fixate so totally on looking feminine, we do lose fact of what being feminine is all…
