The blog critic gudbuy t'jane is even more scathing in her condemnation of the video in arguing that the fact that Lady Gaga 'uses trans women and drag queens to exoticize her videos doesn't defer from the cissupremacist stance that women=vagina, and trans women are therefore not real women . . . This is transmisogyny.'

I talk about “transmisogyny” in my book, which is the intersection of being trans and experiencing misogyny. As a trans woman, I don't just experience how our culture devalues femininity—I'm treated as a fake woman.

As to bisexual trans woman, in addition to all of the above, they are also subject to a whole other set of sexual harassment and violence as a result of transphobia and transmisogyny (this goes especially for trans women of color).

The state is unable to provide equal protection and non-discrimination to those within its borders because the state itself enshrines white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and transmisogyny into its legal codes – a structure that operates through nonconsensual imposition, coercion […]

Later in the text, the author speaks directly with a street sex worker, describing her as a “pretty transgender teenager”, giving a counterpoint to the language earlier in the text—however this occurs well after the transmisogyny of the introductory paragraphs (Wane 2011, 69) …

Transmisogyny

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