Whatâs funny about the transandrobros is that they do stumble onto something real and then immediately make it corny. Yes, trans men and transmascs do face a specific kind of punishment under patriarchy. My gf and I have been calling it trans emasculatation because that is what it is: a social process that strips them of recognized manhood while still disciplining them through the logic of sex. Patriarchy does not simply âhate all trans people the same.â It sorts, ranks, humiliates, and assigns each of us a different place in the machinery. For trans women that place is feminized punishment, sexual degradation, public containment. For trans men and transmascs, a large part of the punishment comes through being denied the authority, legibility, and social standing that masculinity is supposed to confer. They are treated as counterfeit men, failed women, confused girls, softened bodies playing dress-up. That is a distinct injury.
You can see it in how they are spoken to. A cis man can be read as dangerous, competent, commanding, abrasive, or authoritative even when he is stupid. A trans man is far more likely to be read as childish, deluded, emotionally overwrought, aesthetically unserious, or in need of correction. He is not granted the ordinary presumption of masculinity that patriarchy hands out to males as part of their social wage. He is instead kept in a humiliating middle zone where he is punished for reaching toward manhood and mocked for failing to embody it correctly.
That is Trans Emasculation.
You can see it in medicine too this is ofc not unique but the way it shows itself Is absolutely unique.
It also shows up in sex and social life. A lot of trans men are not treated as men with erotic power. They are treated as softened masc accessories for somebody elseâs fantasy, or as harmless little princes who can be petted, aestheticized, and consumed without ever being fully recognized. When they try to be assertive, dominant, horny, possessive, jealous, territorial, or simply blunt, the reaction is often immediate disgust or ridicule. People who tolerate those qualities in cis men suddenly find them embarrassing, fake, or creepy in trans men because what is being rejected is not just the behavior. It is the audacity of claiming masculine presence from a body patriarchy still wants to keep subordinate. That is why the punishment can feel so intimate. It is not just exclusion. It is constant diminishment.
The problem with the transandrobros is that they take that real pattern and then immediately start whining like Reddit boys who just discovered structural analysis yesterday. They want the language of oppression without the discipline of analysis. They want to act like every discomfort is equivalent to transmisogyny, or like patriarchy is simply being unfair to them in the same way it is unfair to everyone else. No. Trans emasculatation is real. It matters. It is worth naming. It is worth studying. It is not an excuse to flatten the hierarchy of gendered punishment or pretend that trans men and trans women are being processed through the exact same machinery. They are not. The point of a concept is to get more precise.
So when I say the thing thatâs funny about the transandrobros is that they do face unique oppression under patriarchy, I mean they are half-right in the most annoying way possible. They sense the injury. They name the bruise badly. Then they turn it into a performance. The serious line is simpler: patriarchy humiliates transmascs by withholding recognized masculinity, recoding self-assertion as delusion, and dragging them back toward feminized dependency whenever they try to stand in their own social authority. That is trans emasculatation. It is real. It is ugly. It deserves a better politics than grievance cosplay.
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