I must be doing something wrong.
Tumblr just recommended this to me:
het trans women should literally never even speak or pretend to understand what trans lesbians go through
yall have zero understanding
yall’s absurd entitlement to OUR lives, simply because were both trans women, is always leveled to prop your self up on our pain.
fuck you.
Tentative Disclaimer: I am neither trans nor a lesbian so they may have a valid point, but I'm not sure.
There's a bit of a point in there, in that trans lesbians tend to get shit on because "hurr durr so they're just straight guys" (since the concept of gender and sexual orientation being separate aspects of psychology is apparently too complicated for people to understand), plus the whole anti-gay bias they're facing along with the transphobia, so it makes sense that straight trans women shouldn't speak for/over them any more than straight cis women should try to speak for gay cis women, but I'm also sensing a "my oppression is worse than your oppression so fuck all of you" vibe in there. I could just be jaded by all of the bullshit I've seen on Tumblr, though.
Also, the whole "you couldn't possibly have an iota of understanding" bit is rather absurd. No one can have a perfect understanding on what another group is dealing with, but it's more than possible to at least have an idea of what they're facing and relate to them because of it.
ETA: Actually, straight trans women are often saddled with the "gay men gone to the extreme" notion, so the whole thing is a shitload more complicated than straight cis chicks speaking for gay cis chicks.
(I won't try to dissect the specifics, being that I'm not trans and all that.)