An interesting thing that happens whenever Joanne opens her mouth is...

All the white trans ppl tweet about it, while 99% of black trans ppl don't because they have bigger fish to fry, being both black and trans in this world.

The race line is always so stark re Potter Lady.

I have a theory about growing up black and having experienced oppression everyday of your life versus the white trans experience, where for some - not all - it's clear that realising they were trans was the beginning of them grappling with the world being fundamentally unsafe.

Being hated, having violence incited against you,... Black people are taught this is the world they're in, from childhood. So Joanne is never a shock to me. How can her tweets shake me when I've lived thru 30 years of overt antiblack violence and malice across all of society?

It's very much, ok Joanne. Join the unending queue of people who are intent on and have been intent on my death and destruction from birth. What's new? Lol.

I think there's a resilience to black trans folks that most white trans folks haven't had to foster...

This isn't to dismiss the feelings or pain of white trans ppl who are triggered by Joanne etc. But just to observe how whiteness and blackness impact the trans experience, create different priorities, and shape what we find "distressing".

Because I had to accept and was taught the world was deeply unsafe for me from childhood. And I do get the sense that for some white trans people they only grapple with that feeling later in life. Since whiteness shielded them from the ubiquitous violence of antiblackness.

But yeah, idk, for some white trans people it does seem that they're "discovering" the world isn't safe. As opposed to always having known that on a deep, fundamental level, as all black ppl do. It's definitely a dynamic I've observed.