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i think this gets at the core of how social-reproductive labour has historically differed btwn cultures of cis & trans women. the former primarily within the private household, while the latter performing it primarily within street work culture + assigned https://twitter.com/endpoIice/status/1278431499948302340
gender spaces. specifically that the historical social-reproductive labour that cultures of trans women / transfemininity have performed have been in the public space, the street, the square, in the poor communities
besides the obvious times where cultures of trans women effectively existed in sexual slavery or indenture, where cis women of have been positioned as private property it would follow that underclassed women such as transfeminine people in sex work
are [valueless] 'public property' by matter of being 'public women'. this hits at the root of how people notice that the kind of violence that is socially acceptable to do to cis women in the private spaces is socially acceptable to do to trans women out in the public spaces
when a misogynistic society only values women for their ability to produce certain kinds of social-reproductive labour and trans women are unable to do some of the most important ones related to property inheritance (e.g. bearing children), the result is that heterosexuality-
as-social-system positions this underclass of women as undervalued in comparison and unworth taking up subordinate position within the private sphere rather than performing social-reproductive labour out in the public. 'chasers will lust after trans women but dehumanize them'
if youre wondering why the historical position of trans women's cultures in patriarchal societies has, when stripped of being tied to spiritual-cultural aspects of social-reproduction, becomes being forced into sex work and other street work, well here
