Following Trump's executive order saying there are only two sexes, trans Americans say they cannot obtain passports and face a 'travel ban'.
The US State Department under Donald Trump has been accused of instigating what amounts to a travel ban after they suspended the processing of trans Americans’ passport applications.
The suspension follows an executive order signed by President Donald Trump last week, which mandated federal recognition of only two sexes: male and female.
The executive order also maintained that “these sexes are not changeable”, leading to government agencies being forced to apply the policy to all government-issued identification.
As such, passport applications where the applicant’s gender is different to their biological sex at birth have not been processed, raising concerns about their access to essential services.
more yay-bunnies bragging about causing harm to transmascs/trans men.
I didn't get this screenshot myself, I was sent this as an ask and hesitated to respond to it because. Now that this shit blew up this user is about as infamous as ISFF, most people that recognize the username yay-bunnies (this is an alt after the og blog got banned. please ban this one too!) know about the harassment campaign against transmascs (and specifically the transmasc minor that started an alternative bunny blog bc she was posting about hating transmascs.)
But, fuck it. Better to have record, I suppose. Because yeah, saying "I did do that" shows PRIDE over this behavior. Shows 0 fucking remorse, regret, or self-reflection. "Infinite transman torture machine" is not only transphobic (for the same reason trans women point out transwoman is transphobic) but. again. advocating for mass violence against trans people. Oh, but it's okay, because it's "the type of trans people that deserve it." God this is awful.
Feb 27 (Reuters) - "Two transgender men in Kansas filed a lawsuit on Friday seeking to strike down a new state law that invalidated the driver's licenses and birth certificates of more than 1,000 transgender people.
The American Civil Liberties Union is representing the plaintiffs, who claim in the lawsuit, opens new tab, filed in Kansas state court, that the law violates their rights to equality, due process and privacy under the state constitution.
"The law makes Kansas the only U.S. state to invalidate previously approved changes to gender markers on identification documents, part of a broader push by Republican-led legislatures to restrict the rights of transgender people.
The sweeping law, which took effect on Thursday, requires state residents to change their gender identification on driver's licenses and birth certificates to the sex they were assigned at birth, and bans them from changing their gender on those documents in the future.
The law also prohibits transgender people from using multi-occupancy bathrooms in government buildings that do not correspond to their sex assigned at birth, and authorizes private citizens to sue people who violate the law."
Read the full story here: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/kansas-sued-over-new-transgender-id-bathroom-law-2026-02-27/
I think some trans femmes on here could really use to do some introspection on why exactly they feel so comfortable dismissing every single thing that AFAB trans people say about our experiences with transphobia and misogyny
Why are you so comfortable assuming you know more about how we were treated when everyone thought we were "teenage girls" than we do?????
Why are you so comfortable assuming a bunch of AFAB people are lying or exaggerating or hysterical when we tell you about how we have been abused and bullied and sexually assaulted because we were perceived as “women” or “girls”
Why are you so confident assuming a bunch of AFAB people are lying or exaggerating or hysterical when we tell you about how we have been harassed and threatened and disowned and rejected from jobs and unable to find housing SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE we were trans masc or gender nonconforming?????
Everyone has misogyny to unlearn, it comes free with living in a profoundly misogynistic society.
And I’m gonna be real, refusing to believe a bunch of people saying “yeah I was raped and abused and had to deal with a lot of really shitty sexism when I (thought I) was a teenage girl” sure sounds like one of the most textbook examples of misogyny possible
another stance of mine I'll make loud and clear here on my blog since I interact with a lot of trans content and tumblr occasionally puts stupid shit up on my algorithm:
"TMA/TME" terms are bigoted, useless, intersexist, straight up racist, and I can't believe they're still being unironically thrown around the damn net.
(this post's experiences are also centered in the usa)
Okay. Now that we've got that out of the way: I keep seeing blogs apply "TME" (transmisogyny exempt) to transmasculine people, sapphics in general, butches in general, and cis women.
Oh brother.
Some of you fuckers have incredibly narrow world views, tunnel-vision life experiences, no diversity in your family or friendship groups, no diversity in your social media followings, and boy does it SHOW. It shows. It shooooows. It's a quick block from me and a fast assumption you're white as hell and have a white as hell circle if you throw that shit around willy nilly. Decolonization also means deconstructing such binaries like this: that a "trans's woman's issue" is "only hers" and could only ever affect her. It's not that simple.
A couple of important points.
-) Transmisogyny often affects transmasculine people (trans men included!) because of the hypervisibility of transfeminine people. Medically is where it shows at its worst in my experience. If you spend any time at all listening to trans men talk about trying to get medical care, deal with insurance, get medications, deal with legality around name changes et cetera, you'll find that a LOT of instances revolve around people writ large assuming we are transitioning the other way around (masc to fem, rather than fem to masc), even if they see an F birth marker and see/hear you are taking T.
I'm not going to explain to you in depth at the moment how this means medical discrimination or medical care denial and other headaches for transmasculine people whether by well intentioned individuals or not. look it up. the tldr is we are still treated and seen as women in hospitals, and simultaneously, we are seen and acknowledged as trans and there is hostility in that. People are very uncomfortable with it. Baddies in red states especially I'm sure know what I'm talking about.
-) Many of us start out looking androgynous, do not pass, or stay looking androgynous, or simply cannot pass even if that's the desire or goal.
Not to mention feminine dressing trans men, and black and brown trans men. People on the street don't see a visibly trans person and instantly assume they're a man (or a man worthy of respect) and afford them respect, either. Facial hair and muscles or no. That's made up in your fucking heads. We get stopped on the street by cis men and harassed about if we are "real females." We are at risk of being hate crimed. Pay attention.
-) GNC people, black cis women, cis women of color, indigenous cis women, cis women with PCOS, cis women who for any reason appear unconventional, effeminate gay men, drag queens who are men, boys who grow up in homophobic and transphobic environments expressing feminine presentations, butch women, butch lesbians of all kinds, masculine presenting women, ET CETERA.
...are all at risk of transvestigation and violence thereof. Of being accused of either: "not being a real woman", "trying too hard to be a woman", "being a fake man", "being a sissy", et cetera. And there's a word for that. It's called transmisogyny. Homophobia, lesbophobia, racism, and transmisogyny are inherently intertwined. They aren't inseparably unique units.
And more of you would do well to remember this when you post walls of text that honestly doesn't mean anything at all, aren't grounded in any real lived experiences, real community or real identity, outside of "hurt feelings, I want to be valid and I want to be the most oppressed." Yes, not every person experiences transmisogyny by default, but MANY, many people who are not inherently trans women (or not exclusively) are at risk of experiencing transmisogyny and other forms of violence and abuse, femicide and hate crimes linked to how much of a "real man or woman" they are perceived as.
And anyone could experience (systemic) transmisogyny at any time if they were in the wrong place at the wrong time doing the wrong thing accosted by the wrong, vapid, malicious fucking cunt, someone who wanted to weaponize laws against them for their own gain, hurt them badly or otherwise, even if they were the whitest most feminine perisex cis woman you ever saw. Texas's newest bathroom is a prime example of this kind of fuckery.
Pay. Attention.
Stop arguing over "who is exempt" and "how exempt" and start asking "how many people are affected" and "who is the most at risk" (the answer is MOST OFTEN black trans women and men and intersex people. The answer is an incredibly long list of marginalized identities. The answer is a growing list. The answer is intersectional.) "how do we empower them" "how do we protect them" "how do we empower them to protect themselves long term" "how can I use my specific privileges wherein I dont have (as much of an issue or issue) to keep my friends safe/r" et cetera.
This post is NOT for hatred for trans women/fems either and if anyone reblogs it who's hateful towards trans women you can get impaled on eleven thousand spikes. This post is intended to raise awareness around transmisogyny as a widespread issue and that "exempt" is a chronically online concept.
We keep losing people in our community. Fucking pay attention. Protect trans life.
Also please do not fall into the "transandrophobia and anti masculinity in queer spaces is a terminally online issue" bs.
It isn't. It has real life consequences.
It's the reason why a lot of people who are masc leaning don't dare to go to their IRL queer spaces and/or are blatantly kicked out from them, or have their queerness scrutinized.
It's the reason why, and I know I say that in almost every post but please, listen ! It's the reason why so many people stay in the closet and are afraid of exploring their identity and/or afraid to come out.
It's the reason why transmascs are deeply isolated and feel alienated when it comes to queer issues. No one is listening to us. Whatever the subject, nobody fights with us for our reproductive rights, our access to medical care, our access to HRT, safety and security for sex workers, suicide prevention, sexual violence, rapes. These subjects become issues worth talking about almost only when we're talking about "women and fems", as a lot of activists say.
Our deaths are ignored and unknown.
It's not only an issue you read about on Tumblr and Twitter, it's something to deeply rooted in real queer spaces that even within these spaces I've seen people look at me with suprise when I bring up the subject of transphobia targetting transmascs, like they didn't even think it existed, and yet, I see other transmascs falling like dominoes over the years, from suicide, from domestic abuse, from homelessness, for being murdered while working, and having their transness ripped aways from them after their died to fall into women's statistics and forgotten.
'I just don't feel like it's worth the risk,' said T. Thomason who, along with Bells Larsen, just cancelled American shows
Toronto singer-songwriter Bells Larsen and Halifax pop artist T. Thomason have both announced today that they are cancelling their U.S. tour dates and a festival appearance, respectively, due to safety concerns and visa policies that discriminate against trans artists.
"I received an email on Tuesday from the American Federation of Musicians stating that I am no longer able to apply for a visa because U.S. Immigration now only recognizes identification that corresponds with one's assigned sex at birth," Larsen posted on Instagram. "To put it super plainly, because I'm trans (and have an M on my passport), I can't tour in the States."
Larsen has had to cancel six tour dates following the upcoming release of his sophomore album, Blurring Time, which was crafted to follow Larsen's transition, harmonizing the artist's pre- and post-transition voice.
Radfems love to claim that trans men transition to gain male privilege, that we have male privilege, etc. Some of the smarter ones even cherrypick studies comparing trans women's health/economic outcomes to trans men's health/economic outcomes in order to bolster their arguments. This ignores the biggest elephant in the room: the gold standard in society is cis people's lives.
Compared to where we started out living as cis people, trans men do significantly worse in all outcomes, from average salary to mental health to relationships with family. This is true whether we started out being labeled as cis men or cis women by society. (Some intersex trans men are AMAB. Stupid comments about "contradictory identities" will be deleted.) Being trans trumps our self-made male identity. If we had male privilege, studies done on our lives would show us being treated like cis men. Those are the designated holders of male privilege. I'm linking the first one I found that shows this, but paper after paper shows that trans men don't reap social rewards for being men. It's baffling to me how so many queer people on this site just parrot radfems thinking they're doing feminist praxis.
