I also really recommend that people look at the way that a lot of these anti-transmasc people and transandrophobes treat trans women and transfems that don't follow their narrative.
They ignore the fact that Julia Serano (coiner of transmisogyny) said that she doesn't like the tma/tme labels and regrets speaking over transmasc people.
They ignore the fact that Emi Koyama (coiner of transfeminism) said a part of transfeminism has to be nonbinary people and trans men refusing to let trans women speak over them or for them.
They ignore the fact that Kate Bornstein (author of the first transfeminist workbook) supports genderqueer gender fuck trans mascs and FTM lesbians.
They just blatantly ignore what are probably the three main transfeminist scholars of our time, in favor of malgendering and misgendering trans men. While also calling every trans woman and transfem person that doesn't agree with them a 'pick me' or straight up misgendering them by claiming they aren't "really transfem" or that "no trans woman would ever say this, so it's clearly a dude lying about being a trans woman online" (hmm, where have I heard that before 🤔).
Transfem people are not and never will be our enemy. I have always been very clear on that and it needs to be ingrained in everyone's head. Transfeminism is not the enemy and never will be our enemy.
Are some transfeminists actively transandrophobic? Yes. Are some transfems actively transandrophobic? Yes. Are they the majority? No!
A sad vocal group of them are loud and mean and exist in a cult like community with each other. Which creates an environment where unlearning anti-transmasculinity and transandrophobia is difficult and comes at the cost of loosing their community. Which is one of the reasons why I disavow callout posts against them, as it will only drive then further into those insular groups and that separatist mindset.
Choosing to group all transfems and transfeminists with that vocal minority is 100% transmisogyny, there is no excuse for it and it is not a valid form of "activism".
The majority of people who are actively transandrophobic or who are pushing anti-transmasculinity are cisgender people. That has always been the case and it has not changed, becouse cis people are the ones given the structural power to do the most amount of material oppression.
If a transfem person is being transandrophobic or participating in other forms of anti-transmasculinity, try talking to them and explaining why what they're saying is harmful. If they refuse to have a conversation or they double down then accept that you won't change their mind right now and either walk away from them or if you're online block or mute them. You don't need to screenshot them and you don't need to write a callout post. There are far more effective ways of combating anti-transmasculinity then harassment or public shaming rituals.
If a non-transfem person is being transandrophobic or otherwise participating in anti-transmasculinity, try talking to them and explaining why what they're saying is harmful. If they refuse to have a conversation or they double down then accept that you won't change their mind right now and either walk away from them or if you're online block or mute them. If they start to use transfem people as an excuse for their behavior, point that out to them, that they are using the concept of transfeminity as a weapon, thus utalizing their sisters and transfem siblings as a tool to harm others while claiming to speak for them, which is transmisogyny. If they refuse to have an actual discussion about gender and oppression intersections then you can assume they're a troll or that they're more committed to finding a socially acceptable demographic to hate then they are to activism. Then block them or walk away, becouse you don't feed the trolls.
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