this is not made to attack anyone who believes otherwise, merely to inform. if you choose to believe these people cannot exist after this, at least have the decency to not attack the people that do exist despite your opinions.

this isn't going to be a very long rentry as i have seen a whole lot of them and documents talking about this topic already. im not going to go deep into transmisogyny and stuff like that, these have already been explained in many other rentries. i merely want to explain from our point of view as an afab system with transfem alters.

now, first of all, whenever we have had arguments about this in the past it has been due to people taking what we say out of context or in a way we did not intend. every time we talk about having transfem alters, people assume we are transfem ourselves OR that the transfem alter in question is claiming the body to be transfem, when we are, in fact, afab and NOT transfem. i want to make this point very clear:

WHEN TRANSFEM ALTERS IN AFAB SYSTEMS SAY THEY ARE TRANSFEM, THEY ARE NOT CLAIMING THE BODY EXPERIENCES THE SAME MISOGYNISTIC EXPERIENCES TRANSFEM BODIES DO. THEY MAY EXPERIENCE THEM IN SOURCE IF THEY HAVE ONE, HOWEVER THEY DO NOT AND NEVER HAVE CLAIMED THE BODY TO EXPERIENCE THEM AS WELL.

this has been the only issue that i have ever come across from people who say that you cannot have transfem alters in afab bodies and the same for transmasc alters in amab bodies. and to add to this point, would that also mean that white bodies only form white alters? as a british/turkish system who is bodily white, we have alters with different skin colours in headspace, however, once again, they never claim to experience the same systematic racism that poc bodies do outside of their memories from source. if there are any alters claiming this or something similar in a different scenario in any system, they should absolutely be called out for spreading misinformation like this.

another small thing to add is that alters form in the system based on how they are perceived, meaning if an alter is perceived as transfem by the brain despite being in an afab body, chances are that alter will also be transfem. this works for both brain-made alters and alters that have an outside source

EDIT: we changed the term 'POC' for different skin colours instead as we genuinely didnt know it shouldn't be used by white systems. we're sorry for using the incorrect term and will change the phrasing we use for it

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Pub: 14 Apr 2024 09:11 UTC
Edit: 25 Apr 2024 17:55 UTC
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