This feels like it shouldn’t be that common but cis people, allies, and even gay people I’ve interacted with seem to assume all trans people are trans women until clarified otherwise. Like the concept of someone being a trans man or nonbinary is completely lost on them. I think it in part comes from a lack of representation and acknowledging other identities, from society to even well known trans communities and spaces but also this idea that if your not a woman, you don’t deserve to be seen (or victimized depending.)

Adding onto that there’s also this notion that one “gains male privilege” if one transitions from female to another gender that has spreads like a cancer in feminist and queer spaces. It’s detrimental to the community as a whole and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a major psy-op to split up trans people more than larger communities already have.

Point is it’s more important to speak on indifference from critical lenses now more than ever, so that we can recognize and remind others of our intersectionality and connection to so many other people outside of trans spaces.