i got curious today and decided to check out the google search trends for some various topics today and the results are interesting!
as a quick key: red is transmisogyny, blue is transandrophobia, yellow is transmisandry, and green is baeddel.
the y axis shows the absolute peak of interest in all of the included search terms, so here april 2015 was when these terms were all collectively at their most popular (and transmisogyny in particular is the dominant phrase. femdom keep on winning) interestingly, "baeddel" was comparatively really popular in that same time frame.
if we remove transmisogyny from the equation, we find that baeddel still hits the top of the charts in april of 2014, followed by another sharp spike in december of 2022
in this chart, yellow is baeddel, red is transmisandry, and blue is transandrophobia. we can see a clear correlation between search interest in transmisandry/transandrophobia with intense interest in baeddels as well.
even more interesting, in my opinion, is seeing where these terms are being searched at. i'll let the maps speak for themselves
as we can see, transmisandry and transandrophobia are exclusively reported in canada, usa, and the uk (and australia in the case of transandrophobia)
i'm not a data scientist, so i don't have a whole lot of specific conclusions to draw. according to google trends, "transandrophobia" doesn't begin to take off until 2019 and "transmisandry" only has a couple spikes of relevancy in january 2016 and july 2023.
my question, i suppose, is "why?"
where is the theory written by and for transmasculine people? if we are to take transandrophobia seriously as a material analysis of the discrimination faced exclusively by transmasculine people, then where is it?
you could argue that it's because transmascs aren't as visible, but is that really true?
according to a study done by the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education and published in the journal of diversity in higher education in 2018, there are twice as many binary trans men in graduate fields as opposed to trans women, and nearly 3x as many nonbinary people cafab
(full study is here: https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.psu.edu/dist/c/129541/files/2021/04/Transgender_graduate_students.pdf
it's an interesting report and you can see that transmascs have a harder time getting hormones compared to transfems. that's an issue worth discussing!)
91 people isn't a large sample size, but the researchers also explain that they struggled to find this many. so then where are all the academic studies on transmisandry/transandrophobia?
and the answer is obvious, isn't it?
just for funsies, probably not anything important, here's the google trends for misogyny vs misandry vs androphobia
november 2014 is the peak for misandry. hey what other sort of culture wars were happening in late 2014? fucking gamergate
misandry has always been reactionary. it was first coined in the 19th century in direct response to feminism. misandry, quite simply, is not real. trying to slather a quick layer of trans paint on it doesn't suddenly force it into existence.
transmasculine people do face discrimination. there are absolutely problems that trans men face that cis men do not, and those problems should be talked about! but you should really, seriously examine anyone who is trying to sell you on transmisandry or transandrophobia because i promise you there is a cleaner explanation for those discriminations. transfeminism can and does help everyone in the trans community. if you're serious about trans unity, then please actually take the effort to unify with transfems. don't be reactionary.
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