Tme

This chapter is based on sixteen in-depth, semi-structured interviews with US-based transgender sex workers on the trans masculine spectrum; specifically, the sample includes seven nonbinary individuals and nine trans men who are TME (trans misogyny exempt).

Additionally, trans women and other trans feminine individuals face far elevated levels of mental and physical trauma and violence compared to their transmisogyny-exempt (TME) peers, directly related to their gender and gender expression through pervasive transmisogyny

Perhaps most famous among contemporary accounts of such condemnation is Porpentine Charity Heartscape’s (2015) pivotal text on transfeminine disposability, “Hot Allostatic Load,” which describes conditions of abjection faced by victims of unsubstantiated callouts, abuse, and ultimate abandonment. In it Heartscape traces a pattern of incorporation, exploitation, and abandonment that characterizes transfeminine involvement in self-identified “queer spaces” dominated by transmisogyny-exempt (TME) people.

Coordinate term: TMA

The hyl is also called "metric slug" or designated by the German acronym TME (Technische Mass Einheit).