femmephobia

There is a surprising amount of femmephobia in feminism, and especially radical feminism.

The new feminists: lipstick and pageants 2008

When trans women and transfeminine genderqueers are assumed to be conformist, apolitical, and weak while trans men and transmasculine genderqueers are assumed to be radical, with it, and hip, that's transmisogyny (and femmephobia, and subversivism).

The Bilerico Project 2009

(When femme trans men are also turned away from those spaces, that's femmephobia.)

The Bilerico Project 2009

Specifically, when I present in a butch or genderfuck way and people assume I'm radical, politically knowledgeable and pay attention to me, but when I present femininely I am ignored, that's transmisogyny (and femmephobia and subversivism).

The Bilerico Project 2009

I’m not saying that there is no problems, and I have also had some bad experiences (and the more unacceptable, I think, is the negation of trans women oppression as women) but I think what is really unhealthy for trans women is transphobia (and femmephobia)

The new feminists: lipstick and pageants 2008

And I think this: “Though I think the most interesting part of it isn’t so much finding your own feminist niche, which I’m sure you realise is never going to happen, but the searching, which is far more interesting” is today’s joint winner of the interwebs, along with the word ‘femmephobia’.

The new feminists: lipstick and pageants 2008