It's interesting how the current transandrophobia discourse seems to follow a lot of patterns previously seen in the 'toothpaste flag' discourse.
'You're just copying us and that's harmful'. Personally, when I've seen people state why they dislike the green-blue gay flag the most often stated reason was 'Because it just copies the lesbian flag'. Similarly, I see a lot of people discrediting the term 'transandrophobia' because they think it's just a cheap copy of 'transmisogyny' created without any depth or understanding of the original.
'By using this thing to describe your identity and experiences, you're making a statement about the identity and experiences of people who you copied it from'. When questioned further, most people explained that by 'copying' the design of the lesbian flag, the creators and users of the 'toothpaste flag' suggested that lesbians' and gay men's experiences were identical, and they found it offensive. Similarly, people who dislike the word 'transandrophobia' often claim that the word itself suggests that 'transfems oppress transmascs'.
'There's already a flag/word for it, so there's no need to create a new one'. This is an argument mostly used by people only casually involved in the 'toothpaste flag' discourse, in my experience, and often thrown casually. The argument that 'there's no need to come up with a new word for your oppression, 'transphobia'/'misogyny' already exists", however, seems to be more emotionally charged when used. While in the first situation it was paired with mild confusion, in the second one it's most often paired with mockery and genuine annoyance.
'It's only used by terminally online teenagers'. Self-explanatory. In both cases this can take a more extreme form of 'It's only used by terminally online transtrenders/tenderqueers/theyfabs.'
Also, I said "us" when quoting the arguments, but in both cases there are a lot of people who are not members of the groups supposedly 'harmed' by the creation of the flag/the word, who were/are very invested in the discourse or simply parrot these arguments because they heard them from people they look up to. There were a lot of non-lesbians who were very invested in shitting on the blue-green gay pride flag and there are a lot of cis people who are very invested in opposing the usage of 'transandrophobia'.
