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This Pride Month, let us advocate for and support our trans men and transmasculine siblings—not as an afterthought, not as a footnote, but as a necessity.

Transandrophobia is real. It is documented. It is the discrimination, shaming, harassment, and alienation specifically faced by trans men and transmasculine individuals.

This is not a hierarchy. This is not an attack on trans women. This is a data point.

Trans men face systemic discrimination before, during, and after transition. The visibility paradox means that as they become less visible as queer, they do not become less oppressed—the oppression just changes shape.

Trans men are routinely shamed, told to "reflect on their misogyny," and dismissed simply for being male. This shaming impacts mental health, self-image, and access to care.

Radical feminists and trans feminists who dismiss transandrophobia need to reflect. The problem is not feminism. The problem is specific actors who have decided that transmisogyny is the only axis of trans oppression worth naming. Both things are true.

Trans women face transmisogyny.

Trans men face transandrophobia.

Acknowledging one does not erase the other.

The silencing of transmasculine voices follows documented patterns:

"You're not really oppressed, you're just men now."

"Your trauma doesn't count."

"You're betraying womanhood."

"Be quiet and listen to transfems."

These are not neutral statements. These are silencing mechanisms.

Trans men deserve to be heard and seen—not as a threat, not as traitors, but as people navigating a specific, intersectional form of oppression.

This Pride Month, I am not asking you to celebrate them.

I am asking you to stop erasing them.

Listen. Believe. Reflect.

Then do better.

— Dr. Kusuke Saiki

PS. I have sources:

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-49509-2_9

https://thesocietypages.org/girlwpen/2011/09/21/transgender-employment-experiences/

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-12633-9_9

https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/02/transfeminism-radical-feminism-toryn-glover-essays

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/01/masculinity-is-crippling-society-could-trans-men-be-the-key-to-changing-that/

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Speaking of Pursuit of jade, I don’t think we give the show enough credit for Xie Zheng’s change of plan concerning Fan Changyu. Like he starts the shows with probably this idea:

“I might develop a huge crush on her, but this situation is temporary. As a result I should do my best to help her and her family in the ways I can while not compromising her and myself. Because, again, this is temporary!”

To, when he leaves her to re become the Marquis of Wu’an:

“So okay, I will leave her for ONE year! One year should be enough to accomplish my vengeance, get to the bottom of what happened to my father, understand what happened to her family, to deal with Prince Changxin and the Sui brothers situation and pacify the country. And then I will come back to her and tell her everything because then the world will be safe and it’s happy ever after from then on baby!”

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Terms that have been Lost in Translation in Pursuit of Jade:

Jiefu （姐夫）- Changning calls Xie Zheng this, she would never call him by his name - see my explanation here

Sunsun (隼隼) - a nickname for the Falcon, because Xie Zheng's white falcon is a Gryfalcon - a "mao sun" (矛隼), and Changning gives the falcon a nickname derived from that, "Sunsun". Kind of like if you called a cat a "kitty" or something. "Sun" by itself just means falcon, generally.

a-jie (阿姐)- Changning calls Changyu "a-jie", which means "older sister"

Zheng'er (征儿) - dilf Wei Yan refers to his nephew Xie Zheng as "Zheng Er", the "Zheng" being his name, and the "er" being a diminuitive, often used for children / someone a generation below you.

Ben Hou (本侯) - this is the personal pronoun Xie Zheng uses to refer to himself, we can see it when he spoke with Li Huai'an in episode 11. It roughly translates to "I, the marquis", and really emphasises his title. He is kind of pulling rank on Li Huai'an here, heh.

Gongsun Yin （公孙鄞）- Gongsun Yin, not sure if this counts but Gongsun is the surname fyi, his name is one word, "Yin". He has one of those double-character surnames.

(i recommend everyone check out the reblogs to see additions from our community)

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Something about how simple and stripped down "Yan Zheng" is in comparison to Xie Zheng's real name(s) and titles - The Marquis of Wu'an, etc.

言正. No radicals - his name cannot be split apart anymore. He cannot be "broken down" anymore than to Yan Zheng.

Thinking about how Changyu found him and treated him like just a man on the brink of death. Just a man. When was the last time when he was treated like just a person and not a weapon of war, a sword of the state to be wielded? When his parents were alive.

When given the choice to introduce himself to a stranger who knows none of his backstory (the good, bad, scary) that's what he chose. He chose to start from as close to zero as he could get.

Was it out of survival initially? Yes! But after things changed where it would have objectively benefitted him to be the Marquis (money, the politics with the Magistrate) he still maintained the identity of Yan Zheng - just a man, just a matrilocal husband.

It hurts when Changyu calls him by his titles (one because it's Changyu doing it) because there's no one else that he can feel human with except her. It feels like she's rejecting not just Xie Zheng the marquis but Yan Zheng the human.

Changyu says that he got married under a false name but, did he really?

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I am not sure how the english subtitles are translating 姐夫 (jiefu), but I did see @renewedmotionforjudgment mention that it is not being translated well!

"Jiefu" is made up of two parts, "jie"" (姐) meaning "elder sister", and "fu"(夫) which can mean "husband" or "man" depending on context, but in this case (and in most cases), it means "husband". So together, "jiefu" means "sister's husband", as opposed to the western way of denoting this relationship as "brother-in-law", which does not specify if the sibling of the speaker is older or younger, or male or female.

Chinese culture is not the only culture with such specific titles attributed to familial relationships on a family tree, but compared to the way it is used in English, it is very specific, and the way it is used is different. "Jiefu" is not a passing description, like "oh X? that's my brother-in-law". It is akin to a name, how a person, as the younger sibling, would call out to the husband of their older sister, every time.

This is why Changning is always calling Xie Zheng "jiefu", just like how she calls Changyu "a-jie". For Changning to call Xie Zheng by his name would be insane and pretty much unthinkable.

It really drives the point home that Chang yu and Xie Zheng are married. If you heard someone call another person "jiefu", that gives you a lot of information - who the speaker is relative to that person, the fact that the speaker has an elder sibling who is female, the fact that such sibling is married to the person they are calling "jiefu" etc - even if it is called out in the most casual, unassuming way.

(see my list of other "lost in translation" things for Pursuit of Jade here)

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Let me carry her. On this street, it seems like all the children are carried by their fathers or brothers.

PURSUIT OF JADE ⁃ 逐玉 (2026) Episode 14.

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The face of a man that cannot believe the audacity of the Emperor that wants to marry his wife

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Pursuit of Jade ‧ 逐玉 ‧ 2026 dir. Zeng Qing Jie ‧ Ep. 11

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A Japanese transmasc rapper named Cocona has become a Brand Ambassador for Gucci. GUCCI!!!! And he’s in Milan Primavera, a really important and fancy fashion show, strutting around with a buzz cut and all his piercings and visible top surgery scars and I’m like genuinely so emotional about this I need all of you to see this!!!!!!! 🥹🥹🥹

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Pursuit of Jade text posts part 3!

complete collection of my pursuit of jade textposts

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This is my husband, the man lawfully married to me, Fan Changyu.

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I'm in love with how she constantly treats him like a gentle damsel, promising to take care of him (and kill as many pigs as needed, obviously XD). I imagine no one has EVER treated a tough general like that in his entire existence XD If I were him, I'd be gone for her in like a few minutes of such treatment :3

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Xie Wu, about to have a heart attack, seeing his whole life flash before his eyes, rethinking every life choice that led to him being stuck in the middle of his boss's marriage drama: YOU WHAT!!??