Two cisgender people were killed in separate attacks motivated by transphobia in the US

This article raises a very important point, especially in regard to minority communities.

It’s worth noting that cis Black women are often targeted by transphobia, especially as it intertwines with white supremacy. As Derrick Clifton wrote for Them in 2021, there’s a long history of Black women athletes’ bodies being policed in sports, with people “mak[ing] cruel remarks about their perceived femininity and creat[ing] racist depictions of their physicality.”

A big TERF slogan is that "we can always tell," referencing how they can always tell when a trans person is using the bathroom that aligns with their gender identity. The thing is, they can't. They constantly get it wrong, time and time again, and end up just throwing harassment at random cis people.

Of course they'll never admit they're wrong. There's people out there who still claim the Michelle Obama, of all people, is trans. They will make up conspiracy theories to support their claims, just fucking make up evidence.

This is all in the greater goal of alienating people who look different from the majority, or in any way break societal norms. In the case of the article, the woman was black and that's all that the murderer needed. Calling her trans was just his way of finding a socially acceptable way to punish her for being a minority because the culture around hating trans people is more acceptable today than the culture around hating black people.

It was the same thing with the one-drop rule of accusing people of secretly being bi-racial. It was the same thing with the red scare and accusing whoever you disagreed with of being a communist. It was the same thing in the Holocaust of being Jewish or associating with Jewish peoples.

It's so laughable that people who participate in this fear mongering finger pointing even call themselves feminist when all they are doing is creating a narrower and narrower definition of womanhood until being a woman just means being conventionally attractive and nuclear-family feminine. They want the freedom of self-expression to be crushed for all but the few that fit inside their boxes just so they can be certain that no trans people are in the bathroom at the same time they are.

This right here is why there must always be solidarity in the fight for the rights of minority peoples.