Obviously, transgender men are violently oppressed, including by sexual violence, by patriarchal culture.
But I don't think anyone in the whole cesspit of Tumblr "transandrobro vs transfeminist" discourse is actually denying that, except for the fictitious versions of trans women invented by misogynists to make us look stupid so we can be browbeaten into shutting up about our experience of marginalization by men in "our" spaces.
What's at issue is the claim that trans men are oppressed for being men-- implying that oppression of trans men is a subset of some wider problem, oppression of men as such. This does not hold up under a systematic philosophical view of material social conditions.
Notably, cis men often rape and murder each other-- but it would be nonsensical to suggest that this speaks to a world problem of systemic "cisandrophobia."
Many men around the world-- most, I'd hazard a guess-- are oppressed violently by the prevailing social order. For being trans, or gay, or poor, or workers, or peasants, or a national or racialized or linguistic subaltern population-- for membership in some group marked for subordination to some other interest. But not for membership in the group men.
Women globally are subject to a prevailing architecture of material relations of ownership, subjugation, oppression, and exploitation of them as women-- although these relations manifest massively different across other lines of political-economic iniquity, in different places, class situations, etc. Transmisogyny is a particular subset of this.
There is no prevailing architecture of material relations of oppression of men as men.
On the contrary. I think men use violence against other men, not to denigrate "men" as a category, but to police and regulate its borders, to preserve it in the form they want it to be. Men trying to keep others from claiming the right to manhood isn't anti-men, in the same way the rich trying to keep others from claiming the right to be rich isn't anti-rich-- it's maintaining the present membership of the ruling class, preventing others from joining.
Male violence against trans men is not anti-men; it's pro- the "right" kind of men, anti- the dissolution of the borders of that class. Male violence against trans women is anti-women, anti-woman as a class being something someone would want to be.
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