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Another day, another 100 tweets from cis women who KNOW trans exclusion is a problem excluding trans and nonbinary people from their solidarity messages 
I know it is an effort to remember to say âsurvivorsâ or âvictimsâ instead of âwomen.â I know it is an effort to not associate womanhood with specific body parts that not all women have and some non-women have when youâve been conditioned to do that your whole life.
But every time you frame your language in a way that excludes trans women, trans men, intersex and/or nonbinary people, youâre leaving people who already have the least space even less space to talk about the things that have happened to us.
This doesnât even approach talking about how this affects cis male victims and people of any gender who are victims of non-men.
The thing is that there are absolutely non-male abusers but when we are talking about an endemic problem in a creative industry, the endemic part is almost always predominantly endemic among cis men. Itâs good to single cis men out and ask them to do better in their communities.
But the same isnât true for victims/survivors. There are a lot of us of all genders. All women (trans and cis), trans men, and nonbinary people face the same things. All of us. But a lot of us are erased and donât have places where we can safely talk about it.
This isnât about men vs women. This is about how cis male dominated industries perpetuate abuse toward anyone who isnât a cis man, and not infrequently toward some cis men, too.
Dismantle the notion that this is an us vs them battle between the binary genders. Acknowledge that this is a systemic injustice enforced by misogyny and also white supremacy and that our primary goal needs to be making our fields inclusive and safe for everyone.
If you have trouble dismantling this in your language when you are having a lot of feelings, practice doing it when you are not. Practice using the most inclusive language and even rehearse what you plan to say and it will start coming more naturally in the heat of the moment.
