One major aspect of transmisogyny is its focus on spectacular punishment: obviously not every trans woman is a good person, and anyone actually tuned in to intracommunity discourse is aware that we are all aware of that, we're famous for fighting amongst ourselves. That we have two trans federal deputies in Mexico and they hate each other so much they can't even be in the same room together is about par for the course. But whenever a trans woman is revealed to be a sex pest, it becomes international news and BBC journalists and Guardian columnists trip over themselves to report on the case - while cis men, who obviously make up the vast majority of sex pests, largely enjoy the comfort of anonymity unless they were already famous for something else
There was probably more coverage in mainstream US media of the neurodiverse trans woman who entered an elementary school in Peru to take selfies of herself in a schoolgirl uniform, which I don't think I have to say is something she should not have done, than there was of the coup in Peru in the previous months and the repression in the countryside that occurred in its wake
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