please someone tell me how this is any different from cis transphobes going "you're so heckin valid (even though you're not a Real man/woman)"
i think telling trans men they're not men in a way that counts is heinously transphobic actually. all these people are obviously transmisogynists as well but atp i'm marking them red for their good old fashioned transphobia too
i've fought cis people who were dear to me for saying shit like this, why should i tolerate it from shitty dudes who, adding insult to injury, aren't just saying it because they're parroting the transphobic background noise of the world rn but to actively deny they benefit from transmisogyny??? fuck all the way off. i'm so tired of people on my asks telling me i should give more grace to ""my community"". these people are not my community and if i could i'd spit on every one of their faces until i died from dehydration
lol can you tell i had a bad day at work
god, yeah. I'm getting so tired of this transphobic tactic of rhetorically pulling apart language around sexgender classing into imagined distinct "components" ("sex" and "gender" and "sociopolitical class") in order to argue that transness is meaningless.
male/man is a sociopolitical class within a patriarchal economic system. what would being a "man" even mean if it was distinct from its relational position in this sexgender hierarchy? what do these guys think manhood is? like they do not even offer a definition of what constitutes this ideal of "gender" that supposedly exists outside of social, political, and economic context.
this endless ''nothing means anything'' idealism as a tool for obscuring any analysis around sexgender in order to perpetuate transmisogyny without being held to account for it.. it's such a "I'd die before I hold solidarity with anyone" move.
transmisogynists are constantly broadcasting that they are more interested in opportunistic individualism than liberation. and then they are outraged whenever anyone notices.
gender is what words you say to be niceys to people even though it is a core component of your political thought that people cannot meaningfully change their position in the sociopolitical class system based on assigned sex (but i'm not a terf). apparently.
fr it's just a "i'll use he or they pronouns for you but we all know you didn't really change your sex right?" and they expect us to be fine with that just to get the opportunity to punch down on trans women. it's infuriating.
