As a trans women, femboys feel like an grotesque parody of me.
Every aspect of the identity is appropriated from trans women but put in an easily digestible cisgender package.
The term started as a gooner term to degender trans women in hentai.
Transfem characters like Bridget are still referred to as femboys in porn circles, just real like trans women are called femboys or ladyboys in those circles.
Sissification hentai includes the growth of breasts while reimaging transition as a punishment for pathetic men abd still managing to reduce them to just men in women's lingerie.
A femboy on facebook, after being told Bridget is a trans woman, told me that trans is a slur made to insult femboys.
As a cultural artifact, a femboy is a trans woman robbed of anything that a cisgender audience would struggle to fetishize.
When I hear the word femboy, I hear a slur. When I think of femboys, I think of at best a tragically unrealized trans woman and at worse a malicious parody of my identity.
I will be called closed minded and something-phobic for having this opinion.