I think it should be OBVIOUS why transfeminine people are "more visible" than transmasculine people. Cis people focus on us and ignore transmascs because we're EASIER to sensationalize and sexualize. In their eyes, transfems present a "mystery" that transmascs just don't. 1/*

https://twitter.com/EmRoseDeLeon/status/1614556460163436544

#socialmedia #twitter #transmisogyny #transphobia #visibility #scrutiny #trans #transgender #transsexual #transfemininity #transmasculinity #patriarchy #cisheteronormativity

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4. Bullying and abuse of power in intra-church disputes. More often than you might expect in an organisation allegedly founded on the life and teachings of a victim of abused power, many of those who dominate church life do so with the typical tactics of the bully: grooming, intimidation, gaslighting, manipulation, dog-whistles, merely performative contrition (when absolutely necessary), and occasionally outright violence.

5. Embrace of a hard-right political agenda (or willingness to ally themselves with the same): creeping #authoritarianism, #ClimateDenial (or its even more insidious cousin #ClimateDelay), #xenophobia, denial/minimisation of colonial violence and its legacy, oppression of the poor, victim-blaming, and generally a more-or-less vociferous support for a status quo of #plutocracy, #imperialism, #neocolonialism and #patriarchy + #cisheteronormativity.

There are other factors, but in my experience talking with people who have left the church, or who have stopped identifying as Christian, or who have abandoned faith (NB these three are not synonymous), almost 100% cited one or more of these five reasons (often all of them) amongst their primary motives.