I've said it once, I've said it twice, I've said it a dozen times. Screenshotting posts made by transandrophobes and re-posting them is not combating transandrophobia.
Documenting transandrophobia shouldn't look like a callout post. The callout post is the weapon of the enemy. We do not use it or we become the enemy to both others and ourself.
If you want to document transandrophobia there are actual productive and genuine ways to do that!
Option One: Discussing transandrophobia in your life, this is the most accessible form. When you experience transandrophobia in your life, talk about it with the people in your life and/or write about it and share those experiences with others. Explain why it's transandrophobia or why it's anti-transmasculinity. Share how it directly effects you or the people you know.
Option Two: Journals and Surveys, not everyone can run a survey or write in an academic journal. That sort of thing really takes time, effort, and the ability to fight a system that might not want you or people like you represented. If you aren't collecting survey data and writing in feminist and gender academia, that's fine - most people are not, but you can still share that academic data, reaserch, studies, and other writing. Transandrophobia and anti-transmasculinity exist as material forms of oppression and have clear material statistics that can be shared. Talk about how trans men make less money then cis women, how trans men and transmasculine people are more likley to be denied medical care including hrt, talk about how trans men's bodies are not considered during saftey trials, talk about the documentation that's already occured.
Option three: Promote further study, research, and documentation! Trans men and transmasculine people endure systematic erasure, sometimes labeled as "invisibility" (a false passive term that puts the blame on trans men), and we will have to fight for our stuggle to be taken seriously. You can help combat that, by being loud and by promoting studies and reaserch by and for trans men and transmasculine people. Instead of rebloging ragebait, callout posts, or unproductive forms discourse.
Discourse can be productive, educational, and praxis - but callout posts aren't. Callout posts do not actually result in accountability or remorse even when the person being called out is in the wrong (if they even are!) instead you've just given the original poster a feeling of righteousness, as someone whose been on the bad end of more than one callout post, I promise you they only encouraged me to keep going.
You've also exposed their post to a larger audience, now everyone has to see thier post. And if their is genuinely hateful? That sucks, I already know that people hate me. I already know that people hate trans men. I already know these things and seeing yet another drowned tumblr post about how someone wants people like me to die, isn't my idea of a good time. I already have to deal with all the aspects of being a transgender man in my political life, personal life, work life, and in my hobbies. I don't need additional hurt that could have been easily avoided.
The transandrophobia tag and the anti-transmasculinity tag should be used for productive discourse, education, and personal discussions of our material reality and lived experiences. Not a pissing ground of drowned tumblr posts that had 10 likes on the original.
