“if cis people are allowed to be gender nonconforming, why can’t trans people? let trans men be feminine!”
this is a common sentiment i see being passed around nowadays. you can open tiktok or instagram and find an endless stream of teen FTMs in dresses and black eyeliner. they say things like “i want to be able to wear skirts the way that cis men wear skirts.”
on the surface, this rhetoric is a pretty confusing gotcha because there’s seemingly no way to argue it without being called transphobic. they are intentionally, but subtly, trying to playing on our sense of righteousness towards protecting GNC people.
but the truth is, they’re inserting themselves in a category that does not include them. it’s the most rampant case of self-ID i’ve seen. most of these people haven’t even done HRT or had surgeries. they are still seen 100% as girls/women by society, and they’re trying to convince us that conforming to female roles is GNC just because they said so.
they have so much internalized misogyny that they would throw their womanhood under the bus despite participating in femininity—the oppressive structure used to control women.
if you’re going to base an identity around sexist stereotypes instead of the existence of actual sex dysphoria, at least have a little consistency.
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