![A permission form. Text across the top reads 'Permission to be horny on the Internet(Trans Women Only): Must be notarized and submitted in triplicate'. There are fields for the applicant's name, legal name, deadname, and fingerprints. There are six yes or no questions, reading 'Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the furry fandom?', 'Have you ever cranked it to tentacle porn?', 'Do you have body[sic] proportions that are outside the pre-approved standards for the gender of Woman(trademark)?', 'Have you ever purposefully viewed any kind of pornography, anywhere, ever?', 'Do you engage in, or wish to engage in, sex acts that could offend the average Republican mom in Iowa?', and 'Have you ever left the house without proper modesty equipment to protect the world from your disgusting body?'. Across the bottom of this section, fine print reads 'if you answered yes to any of the questions in the above section, please stop filling out this form and immediately report yourself to the nearest catholic Diocese for absolution'. Below this are three short-answer questions, reading 'Please briefly describe the sexual thought/fantasy/perversion you are requesting to experience', 'How will you recieve consent from every person who might potentially see this?', and 'Honestly, what makes you think you deserve to express sexually, you absolute freak'?. At the bottom of the page, there are fields for the applicant's signature as deadname in cursive, signature of parent, signature of 'Cis Ally who isn't into that freaky shit', signature of Congressional representative, date, and 'Date you started HRT(you are on HRT, right?)'. Watermark text in the background reads 'hi this was made by a trans woman as a joke, if you use this unironically I am killing you with hammers'.](/images/tgirlpermissionslip.jpg)
Credit to @sylviii on Tumblr for creating this image.
This thing puts into snappy meme format what I've seen happen over and over on the Internet, especially in "progressive" circles where it, quite frankly, doesn't belong. For reasons completely unclear to me, trans women in particular are disproportionately "called out" for "sexualizing" cis women, despite posts of essentially the same nature and content made by cis lesbians seeing mostly positive responses.
Is this an outgrowth of general Internet purity cultureAd-friendliness? Transmisogyny? Both? Is it somehow new? How many of my sisters have internalized it and ended up hating themselves? Can we even stop it, or is it just a symptom of capitalisma broader issue?
I don't know. I'd hope you can infer my stance from the text, but if you can't: