the creature feature, featuring gender

Vel, he/it/bug, (no they), transmasc nb birdthing.

[boycreaturefeature]

I’m Vel, he/it/bug. Your local transmasculine nonbinary birdthing. No they/them. This blog is for my gender thoughts, discourse and just in general. Queue is used and set to once a day.

[hallow-xd]

as a trans girl, i think we should kill transandrophobes. they make me so angry. we should be protecting our brothers, not bullying them. this shit doesn't help anyone except for the people who want us divided.

[123gocat]

as a trans guy, i think we should eliminate transmisogynists as well!! LOVE YOU TRANS SISTERRSS!! 💖💖 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ we should all love each other and be happy . DONT YOU THINK I FORGOT ABOUT YOU INTERSEX AND NONBINARY FOLK!!!!!! 💝💝💝💝

[genderkoolaid]

i don't know why some feminists, who are genuinely trans-affirming and even actively try to challenge elements of cissexism in feminism, are so goddamn allergic to saying "cis men." its one word. three letters. just slap it in front of the word "man" when relevant. i know you know that cisness and transness are relevant. so why am i still having to read you say "men" over and over and over again when it is blatantly obvious you mean cis men!

[genderkoolaid]

like sorry to be a bitch about it (not really) but i do think it is that serious. i think you should be thinking about cisness and transness and intersexuality whenever discussing gender. it really all goes back to trans men's transmanhood being overlooked and erased as a site of oppression in favor of focusing on transness detached from manhood or femaleness detached from manhood and transness.

[genderkoolaid]

#no one is saying that some trans men DONT act like the cis men you hate but it is upsetting when people act like.... Its a Man thing-#to be a bad person and hurt people.#because some trans mrn are just trying to be good men and seeing things about how terrible men are and always will be every day is painful!!#hell im not even a man and i still internalize it all the time because im masc aligned.

the thing is i'm not talking about the individual level of "sometimes trans men act like jerks"

i mean saying shit like "the legal system is designed by and for men." structural systemic examples of androcentrism and misogyny that trans men objectively were not privileged in considering, and in fact are actively fucked over just as much if not more than cis women. there is no excuse for not saying "cis men" here (& as people pointed out in the notes, there's also a lot of other ways in which various marginalized men are excluded, but even just focusing on gender/sex as a lens here).

its not even about individuals internalizing toxic masculinity. and its also not even about individuals who just individually don't care about trans men! i am not making a point about how individuals think here really. the point is that across the spectrum of political ideology and feminist identification and genuine trans allyship, people consistently. CONSISTENTLY. will overlook using a three letter word to clarify that they understand trans men are not cis men and that the "men" privileged on a systemic level under patriarchy are cis men, even when its a situation which would genuinely be absurd to think trans men were considered or valued.

the cissexism in feminism runs so goddamn deep. and its not reducible to any individual's attitudes because people can genuinely know and care and love trans men and still pull this shit constantly. its an ideological problem that goes beyond any one person.

[boycreaturefeature]

something something the treatment of cis was as default and thus not requiring differentiation something something about the othering of transness something something language and how we can use it

[boycreaturefeature]

Sometimes you start thinking too deeply about gender and just like a word you’ve said too much you start realizing that it’s just, nothing. There’s nothing inhearent to the vast majority of masculinity/femininity/neutralility/ect! It’s just… a game, rules dictated by society. Tap onto any of it and find its hollow underneath.

[boycreaturefeature]

The thing that i dislike about the whole TMA/TME thing is that like — you really trust cis people to be able to tell what direction somebodies going in? You really trust cis people to only direct transphobia towards trans people? Are you sure about that??

[sweetashe]

not to mention many black women get transmisogyny directed at them all the time because they’re hyper masculinized and aren’t allowed to be feminine like white women

[boycreaturefeature]

This actually was one of the points I had in mind when making this post (black women in particuilar expirience transphobia even when cis). Thanks for saying it. The world is full of intersectional identities that cause people to be targets of bigotry even though they aren’t the identity being bigoted against, and it’s always great to get more people talking.

[boycreaturefeature]

”transandrophobia/anti-transmasculinity isn’t real” When i was younger one legitimate thing o had against transitioning (in the future) was that instead of being a women scientist, instead of being progressive and boundary breaking, i would just be a man. What would all the little girls think if i abandoned them, left the harshness of female hood to become a man instead, become not the idol they looked up too?

[bro-ur-literally-chips]

YES I WORRIED ABOUT THAT SO MUCH someone else understands!!

It is such a bad feeling to hear over and over again that you need to be a woman in STEM because the field is overrun with men and men are ruining everything and you need to get to the top with Girl Power!! and you need to be an inspiration to young girls like You. And then you realize you aren’t a girl. And then you get it into your head that you’re The Enemy, and that you’re actually part of the problem. Ignore that you can’t think of a single transmasc scientist either, you’re obviously taking spots from women.

It sucks. I still feel bad about being trans and wanting to be a scientist because of it. Logically I know it’s not something to be guilty about, but it’s been so ingrained into me.

[boycreaturefeature]

Yep, this!!! The guilt that comes from leaving womanhood behind, from not making strides as a women, joining what’s seem as the ‘enemy’, ‘taking room’ and ‘ressources’ from those who used to be your fellows. It’s a weird feeling and I’m glad that people out there resonated with it.

[boycreaturefeature]

”transandrophobia/anti-transmasculinity isn’t real” When i was younger one legitimate thing o had against transitioning (in the future) was that instead of being a women scientist, instead of being progressive and boundary breaking, i would just be a man. What would all the little girls think if i abandoned them, left the harshness of female hood to become a man instead, become not the idol they looked up too?

[ted-undead]

literally used to get so upset that i would not be a “woman in STEM” and would be taking spots away from women who could be in STEM instead of a man like me. that once my gender changed i was the statistic we were trying to push against. who needs more men like me in STEM?

[boycreaturefeature]

Not to talk over you but use this as a way to get the conversation outta the tags — it’s younger trans men who needs men like you in stem. When you transition, the world doesn’t just lose a women in stem it also gains a trans man/masc.

@echoiiing said it very well.

So, for everybody that feels that strange shame and pressure of needed to be the Women Scientist, the Women Role Model in the room — you’ll instead be a Trans Masc scientist, a Trans Man Role Model.

[zk-j]

on my knees begging people to realize saying that trans men are oppressed doesn't mean that trans women aren't oppressed

[boycreaturefeature]

”transandrophobia/anti-transmasculinity isn’t real” When i was younger one legitimate thing i had against transitioning (in the future) was that instead of being a women scientist, instead of being progressive and boundary breaking, i would just be a man. What would all the little girls think if i abandoned them, left the harshness of female hood to become a man instead, became not an idol they looked up too?

[boycreaturefeature]

You know it’s bad when reddit of all places is better for your mental health on trans discourse then tumblr. On reddit I can occationally run into garden variety non acceptance — on tumblr, as a transmasc, well. I think it’s well known.

[boycreaturefeature]

Shoutout to all the wonderful trans people out there <3. Shoutout to all the incredible transmasc and trans men and nonbinary people and ‘tme’s who are so hated for their existence. Shoutout to all of the lovely and wonderful transfem and trans women and nonbinary people who are so outspoken in their advocacy. Seeing trans people happy and fighting for community and to help eachother instead of pushing other community members down is always so heartening to see.

[boycreaturefeature]

On one hand i know that socializing terms aren’t good and i know that every transgender person has a different story and yes, i know that oftentimes transgender people are often not even perceived as what they were born as and are instead perceived as a gender anomaly but i really do wish that there was a way to talk about “Hey, being perceived as something treated as such regardless of what that was actually are does affect you in the future” that was succinct

[boycreaturefeature]

The thing that i dislike about the whole TMA/TME thing is that like — you really trust cis people to be able to tell what direction somebodies going in? You really trust cis people to only direct transphobia towards trans people? Are you sure about that??