“bigots don’t care about trans men” “nobody’s coming for the transmascs” begging you all to look around!! yes it’s true that bathroom hysteria and sports bans overwhelmingly target trans femmes, sometimes to the point of explicitly not caring about transmascs, and these are some of the most visible anti-trans pushes that impact people on a day-to-day basis. but anti-transmasc sentiment is a MASSIVE part of the conversation around gender-affirming care. think of “irreversible damage”. think of jkr’s belittling of autistic transmascs. think of how excited conservatives & TERFs get about their token detransitioners, basically all of whom are afabs willing to parrot shit about having been “mutilated” and “ruined” to advocate for outlawing GAC. think of all the hand-wringing over “the mutilation of healthy female breasts”, and the idea of little “girls” in particular being made sterile. think of how mad cis men get when hot “women” “ruin” themselves by so much as cutting their hair. it’s fundamentally of the same stuff as all pro-choice issues. to conservatives, every transitioning transmasc means another “female” they can’t use; another “girl” removed from the potential sex/marriage/procreation pool; another “woman” they can’t force to give birth (and they would love to force transmascs, specifically, to give birth, and they are VERY violently explicit about this). every trans man is a stupid autistic girl who doesn’t know her place. I’m not saying it’s not true that trans women are bearing the brunt of anti-trans rhetoric but it is also simply not true that trans men do not figure in at all. we make them EXTREMELY furious and upset and they have made this very clear.
