Iām absolutely fascinated by a claim thatās come out of TRF circles a few different times now, which is that ātransandrobrosā are the newest iteration of truscum.
Iāve seen the claim a few separate times now, and each time the only support that this claim has behind it is the ālogicā that:
1. Truscum were a group of trans people with bad ideology
2. Truscum were almost entirely trans men (citation needed, even though Iām just going to take it as true for the rest of the post)
Who else (to the people making this comparison) are a group of almost entirely trans men with bad ideology? Transandrobros!
Which isā¦ an interesting way to try to make a connection. Because if we look at what the ideology actually is, the fact that itās just ābadā ideology, or ideology a particular person doesnāt agree with doesnāt exactly marry these two concepts together.
If anything, the people arguing against the idea of transandrophobia employ more of the tactics and follow more of the ideology traced out by truscum.
Truscum ideology was about defining who is trans by way of, basically, if theyāre trying hard enough to become a stealthing trans person. If you werenāt trying to pass as a cis looking person of the opposite binary gender as to what you were assigned, then you werenāt really trans by this ideology. Nonbinary? By truscum ideology, thatās just a fake identity made up by cis people who want to feel special.
Where, exactly, does this mesh at all with what people are taking about when we talk about transandrophobia?
In my experience, as a nonbinary transmasc, who in arguing about transandrophobia existing has used my own experiences as counterpoints and counterexamples to peopleās assertion that thereās male privilege given to all trans people who were AFABā¦
Iāve been called a theyfab (a slur popularized by truscum)
Iāve been called a trender (truscum term)
Iāve been told Iām obviously not trying hard enough to pass (the definition of truscum ideology)
Iāve had my name mocked for being ambiguous instead of masculine (seeing the trend here yet?)
Are we seeing why I find it really fascinating that people are trying to say that Iām on the side of the truscum? Simply because trans man/masc + ideology someone doesnāt like must always be the same?
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