Trans woman here. Really wanted to support and reblog your reproductive care post, get everyone on our side aware too because we should be fighting together for that one.
But you had to go and tag it transandrophobia.
Now, even if I was still willing to reblog such a problematic tag (that we blacklisted and just absent mindedly happened to click through the warning, btw), noone on our side would take it seriously.
You have to understand how intersectionality works, my man. Transandrophobia implies an intersection between two forms of oppression, transphobia, and that of being a man / masculine. That sounds really sketchy. Transandrophobia has been used far too much as a dogwhistle to undermine the very real intersection between transphobia and mysoginy by presenting itself as the "men" version of it.
Now, even in edge cases where the "men" bit might even matter, such as in the reproductive health post, such a word is still bound to divide everyone, and get all sorts of twerfs on your side, and drive all of the transfems away.
Remove the tag, friend, and let us fight for you too.
The term was coined by a trans man of color to talk about a specific subset of experiences often had by trans men, transmasculine folks, or folks who may be perceived or assumed to be transmasculine
And to be honest I think I should be able to use whatever damn term I want to describe the specific oppression I face as a trans man (and especially as a trans man of color), without other people getting to police what words I get to use. First it was transmisandry, then that was bad so it was transandrophobia, then that was bad so now it's anti-transmasculinity. Maybe we should focus less on the specific term I use and more on the actual experiences I'm describing.
And I guarantee you TWERFs aren't in my notes singing me praises, I get hate from every fucking demographic on this app. Trans women, trans men who subscribe to the TME/TMA binary, TERFs/TWERFs, TRFs, transmed/truscum folks, and more.
Additionally, there are aspects of transandrophobia that are systemic (like the post I made regarding reproductive healthcare, and also the way the government treats trans men in legal formatting very similarly to the way all trans people get treated legally) but not all instances of transandrophobia are based in systemic oppression. A lot of what I talk about when it comes to transandrophobia is not oppression, it is experiences and hostility I face within queer spaces for being specifically a trans man.
I have faced lots of hostility (NOT oppression) from other queer and trans people in my life for being specifically a trans man. Being told I'm a "gender traitor" by queer women is one, being told I'm both too masculine for other people to be comfortable and also not masculine enough to be treated as a "real man". Many many people on Tumblr who unironically post things like "I hate all men including or especially trans men" or "trans men need to shut up" or even in extreme cases, "trans men should die" (yes there are people like that).
Transandrophobia is the word I choose to give a name to this sort of trans specific anti-masculinity that is so prevalent in queer and "progressive" spaces, and anti-masculinity affects my cis masc and male friends in our supposed community as well.
I'm sick and tired of having to be the acceptable punching bag in my communities because I'm a man, and I am going to be vocal about it.
If the word transandrophobia bothers you, you have every right to block me. I make it very clear what I post about in my pinned post and I will not be changing the way I speak about my own experiences and the experiences of my masc brothers and siblings because you've dictated our words are now transmisogynistic.
Many people who post about transmisogyny awareness are very vocal about how much they hate trans men, nonbinary and intersex people, and some are very racist. But that doesn't make the term transmisogyny an inherently bad term and I would never ask people to stop using it because of the bad apples. Yet for some reason, that seems to be how everyone approaches trans men.
