Fair enough. Obviously womanhood outside the United States isn’t the same as here, and here we are relatively privileged compared to most of the world. That being said, I still live the life that I live and I still would like American women to feel free of gendered violence and oppression, not just feel that “well at least we experience less violence and oppression based on gender than some women do.”

You appear to be white — I could be wrong of course — but I don’t suppose that you ignore all of your own problems or feel grateful to have them just because your neighbors who are not white have it worse. There’s no Oppression Olympics where only the person who is worst-off in the world can feel bad when they experience discrimination. In most of my personal writing and activism I default to centering trans women of color as the people that my own community most oppresses. But sometimes I have every right to be irritated with the oppressions I personally experience, too.