The reason you'll never see me believe that transandos are anything besides a reactionary movement is because I saw it happen in real time. I SAW THE REACTION HAPPEN. And that reaction was to transmisogyny as a term being coined. These words didn't enter discourse at the same time. First there was transmisogyny and they HATED that. Before transandrophobia entered the lexicon there was already an entire culture around transmisogyny denialism. There was still Anti-TMA/TME discourse, anti-egg culture, socialization theory, "transmisogyny affects us all equally", the megapope discourse, describing transfems advocating for themselves as "Oppression Olympics", and painting discussions of transmisogyny as needlessly divisionary and against AFABs specifically.
But then they saw us actually banding together and forming a community with ourselves. A community that provided a safety against the spurious call-out machine constructed to ruin transfems social lives. We started promising to not abandon each other and suddenly TMEs were losing their favorite weapon of destroying a trans woman's social life with a single Google doc. And that's when they realized something. They need their own community to organize around if they wanted to keep us in our place. They needed more than whisper campaigns to rid themselves of these meddlesome priests. They needed to go full kiwifarms.
And so they started organizing and trying to rapidly develop what they were calling theory (IE: Attempting to create their own version of super special oppression to make them win all discourse forever that they believed transmisogyny to be). And this transmisandry was coined. Yeah the term that's now only used by the most mask off chuds who believe misandry exists was the first term and you should have seen how HARD they glommed onto it. It didn't matter to them that misandry was real because they NEEDED a term that was "transmisogyny for men". Back then "how dare you oppose transmasc create a term for their own oppression!" was their main argument. They hadn't quite gotten to theorizing actual misandry theory (yet).
But then even to them it became untenable and they had to start coming up with new words. And this transandrophobia came into the picture. And while today that is what they settle on that did not initially stop them from trotting out a new word for the term every week. Partially because the coiner did genuinely believe in the idea that androphobia was "the fear of men" and had tresfem lesbian detransition dykebraking kink that DEFINITELY didn't have any political motivation and you pointed out that it might be rooted in transmisogyny like how raceplay is rooted in racism them of course your just kink shaming. An action which is revileable in transfems but is completely fun to use to ruin her life. But even so he was bad press so there was a need to throw spaghetti at the wall. But nothing sticked so they just had to settle with the term created by someone who conceptually believes in misandry.
And that's not the only term they had to hyperadvance. They still needed to get the tranny call-out machine back in gear. Which they realized was a bit hard because this was soon after aphobia/transmed discourse died down and one of the major affects of this discourse was that being exclusionary was no longer seen in any positive light. If they wanted to exclude us they somehow had to paint it as non-exclusionary. Which is when they had an epiphany. If the only unwelcome members of the community are exclusionists then all they had to do was paint transfems as exclusionary and then excluding them was free game.
And what better exclusionist to paint them as than they very hate group that wants to oust transfems specially from the queer community?: TERFs. And so "drinking the radfem Kool aid", TIRF, TMERF, TRF, Baeddel, Neo Radfem. We're all trotted out in a weekly attempt to paint transfems as just as bad as the genocidal hatemob that wants them dead. Also in attempt to break that solidarity they hated because if a trans woman WAS a terf then surely she would be an equal danger to her sisters. beaddel they went particularly hard in the paint for. Drudging up conspiracies about a cabal of evil separatist trannies who did so much evil and even though they are no longer around they are manipulating trans women behind the scenes as a pysop. There was the infamous NotHorses article that cited literal actual TERFs. And when they had used it to the point where it had become a slur (just like its medieval roots but a different definition this time around) and some transfems had started to reclaim they tried to pivot to say that transfems couldn't use it because actually its roots are an intersexist slur. Which they couldn't really sell because. You know. THEY were the ones using it as a slur against trans women. Kinda hard to sell a slur as a slur for one group when you're explicitly using it as a slur for a different group. They stuck with this as their go to TERF painting term for a good couple terms. But eventually the optics (the only thing these chuds care about) of drudging up an ancient medieval slur that is the literal root for the word "Bad" was untenable. So they dropped for the most part and have since fallen back on trf and TIRF (because we all know the transfem exclusion wasn't the problem for them it's the feminism).
Oh and who could forget about TrAnSuNiTy. Halfway through all of this it became too apparent that there were open transmisoginist transandrochuds going full mask off like transmascpeterwintz who was responsible for "transmisogyny group chat" and treated becoming mutuals with Tumblr CEO as a huge fucking get in the wake of Predstrogens unbanning. TERFs starting hanging out in their spaces and saw them as recruiting grounds. It became impossible to deny transmisoginistic sentiment at the heart of the movement so it was time to rebrand again. The transunity movement was an attempt to frame themselves as enlightened centrists intervening in this discourse and attempting to heal this divide.
Of course inclusion and community healing weren't on the table. All transunity chuds still believed in transandrophobia and all of its transmisoginistic sentiments. They just needed to distance themselves from the OPENLY transmisoginistic transandro chuds. Who of course they would only play a token acknowledgement of when attempting to same sides the issues because ultimately they were still working together. The modus aparendi was still painting transfems discussing transmisogyny as uniquely exclusionist and needing to be excluded themselves. For the good of Unity you see. The most blatant example is when a child went around to a bunch of trans lesbians inboxes and sent anonymous copypastas that boiled down to "I prescribe you with Baeddel bitch disease. It's terminal and I'm going to need you to have sex with a trans man to fix it" and while the open transando chuds went to defend the "sucking and fucking instead of fighting" rhetoric that the ask was using you wanna know how the transunity crowd reacted? Did they take this as an opportunity to put their money where their mouth is and step up for trans women against corrective rape copypasta anons and show they are actually against the transmisoginistic transmasc they claim to be against? FUCK NO! Because you see the DAMN TRANN-I mean beaddels were taking this OBVIOUS OUTLIER at face value and RUINING OUR GOOD IMAGE WE WORKED SO HARD TO SCULPT. And we got this gem.
The only post one of the major blogs could get out against the sentiment STILL FUCKING CALLS US BEADDELS. THEY COULDN'T EVEN NOT USE THE EXACT TERM THE ANONYMOUS ASKER WAS "PRESCRIBING" US WITH. These optics obsessed losers couldn't even not call us the very same slur the "outlier" was using in their supposed decrying of his rhetoric. "We shouldn't be using Sucking and Fucking arguments we should be excluding those dirt Baeddels". Eventually it became obvious to everyone outside the transandrobro movement they they were not actually "against the discourse" and they slowly slipped back into the wider movement and the only posts you'll see of that sentiment is "I don't care about politics or discourse" coming to complain about trans women in the transmisogyny tag these days.
But yeah I've gotten to play witness to this entire movement's history against my will cause y'all are so fucking obsessed. Has the movement grown enough that they are now attracting good faith people who assume that they are only doing transmasc advocacy and don't believe they are acting in reaction to trans women? Yes. But the very foundation of the movement is rooted in transmisogyny and the ones responsible for fostering those transmisoginistic roots are still the major players in the community. They still haven't gotten rid of their terf recruiter problem and every other day there's a new transandrobro showing his full ass of how much of a transmisoginist he is. The movement is reactionary and transfems exclusionist at its core.
