“Anti-transmasculinity was coined as an alternative to the dogwhistle that "transmisandry" usually implies, and to avoid confusion from terms like "transandrophobia" which may draw false equivalence to Transmisogynoir. Anti-transmasculinity is its own phenomenon for real.
A theory of Anti-transmasculinity assumes that Patriarchy must regulate *kinds* of manhood and masculinity. It doesn't assume manhood and masculinity are synonyms. It understands that hegemonic manhoods and masculinities are Western, bourgeois, and naturalized by cissexism.
A theory of Anti-transmasculinity understands that ethnocentrism, class domination, and political authority are the historical material origins & basis for the regulation of manhood and masculinity. Such a theory also agrees with the transmisogyny-as-fulcrum thesis in TMA thought.
A theory of Anti-transmasculinity understands that the regulation of manhoods and masculinities weilds cisheterosexist coercion and interpretation of bodies/anatomy in the context of political, economic, and cultural domination, [especially] under modern racial capitalism/colonialism.
A theory of Anti-transmasculinity does not frame the gender marginalization of trans men and trans masculine people as *epiphenomenal* to that of cis women; does not frame it as *secondary* to or "based on" coercive sex assignation; and does not equalize it with transmisogyny/transmisogynoir.
A theory of Anti-transmasculinity does not validate the idea of misandry. Cis men aren't oppressed for their manhood or masculinity, even when colonized or poor. A theory of Anti-transmasculinity draws from frameworks like Triple Jeopardy or Minor Patriarchy to understand marginalized gender oppression, of which Anti-transmasculinity is one form. This means paying attention to how regulation of manhood and masculinity occurs both internal to and external to the colonized. Theories of Anti-transmasculinity are not to be liberal/immaterial.”
— Thread by Afrofuturist Abolitionists of the Americas on theories of Anti-transmasculinity
