- Joined
- Apr 28, 2022
Oh! Do you remember that confrontation with TS Madison with Jeanette's weirdo friend wearing a t-shirt that read "Black Trans Lives Matter"? They are so awkward and weird around black trans women. Which is fine- who wouldn't feel weird around Peppermint? But when I saw that I laffed and laffed and laffed.
Black and white trans feel like two completely different subcultures. White trans women, at least the hyper public online ones, tend to be some shade of AGP, or increasingly, socially sanctioned Gypsy Blanchards like Jazz. The black trans woman scene meanwhile seems to be dominated by homosexual males, because homophobia is still a massive thing in a lot of black communities. The two groups have an interesting relationship. Unlike white trans women, black trans chicks do actually face a higher risk of violence, not so much because they’re trans so much as a lot of them being sex workers. And not “ugly long haired dude posting on OnlyFans” sex workers, I’m talking street walkers. When TS Madison broke down about feeling the spirits of all the dead girls (”girls”) he knew, I don’t doubt those people existed or that his pain was real.
Basically, white trans use black trans as a shield, because black trans people tend to have way sadder lives than white ones.