The "divide" between Black cis and trans women is not rooted in essential differences of the body. It's rooted in everyday practices of sex segregation. The practice of socializing, gendering, and partitioning children on account of the appearance of their external genitalia. 1/

The infant removal of certain kinds of girls and women from their community due to the idiosyncrasies of their genitals.

Our generation is the first addressing this so it is not entirely surprising that trans and cis women can only collectively embrace definitional affinity. 2/

Trans girls like Zaya Wade, and cis girls who grow up with girls Zaya will not have this problem.

The sooner trans girls are brought back into their community, and the more we relinquish biological determinism, the more meaningful and substantial our affinities will be. 3/