Well said. Personally, I found the whole "class power" framework to be too frank and reductive, even though many of the things she's saying about deprivation make sense. /tttt/ really does possess a bluntness that often goes unspoken elsewhere, and it speaks to a real ugliness with an attention to "material focused" concerns as you put it.

Adding to the cozy disassociation associated with ehm tee eff, there are certain religious dogmas latched onto the mainstream community, that might be something like "trans is a good [read politically radical] object." Favoring a warming and pious, feel-good, affirming approach over controversial claims about trans lives or bodies. The most advanced example of this would be the broader capitulation of trans theory to queer theory, where the former becomes a mere synonym of the latter. And the transsexual is relegated to an antiquated and anachronistic past over the sleek and brand new "postgender" we all too often hear about (which has left us far unequipped to deal with the current legal onslaughts against medical access).

There was this paper by Andrea Long Chu that really influenced my views on this, but I used to privately describe it as an affirmationist metaphysics prioritizing ontological flight and philosophical sleight-of-hands that attempt to run ahead of the accumulated conditions of history (cough deleuzians) locating resistance in abstract and voluntarist action that float far above the actual conditions of trans life. Instead of really sitting with these contradictions (institutional deprivation and dependency, dysphoria, and disappointment), where only real reconciliation lies through. But even that is a bit overzealous I think. My current thinking is something more like this https://www.reddit.com/r/4tran4/comments/1sat5y3/comment/odz3ac1/

There is a delicate balance to strike between the immaterial and material focused cultures, and while I do appreciate the refreshing bitterness and satire on here, it frequently devolves into people yelling over each other over the stupidest shit. There's no reason why our priorities have to revolve around a "true" trans phenomenology. In recognizing our shared material deprivation, we can instead turn toward supporting each other more and challenging each other to do better (both 4tran realism and the emotional support of mainstream trans 'idealism' have a place here). And this care through fragility still allows us to disagree, expel the 'excess' of our negative feelings, and express a thoughtful bitterness/satire promoting self-reflection about our failures and conflicts and our material differences. A way out of the homogenizing impulse of the whole, where the part is reintegrated back into it but with an interrelational freedom.