#transmascphobia

[that-grassbro]

Dear all western trans guys:

Please DO be that 'obnoxious' guy who brings up non-western trans men whenever other westerners start talking about issues of transphobia and misogyny like we don't exist.

A lot of the time, the risks for us bringing it up ourselves is much greater than that of a fellow westerner. Or we may not even be invited to the table to be able to say anything. We genuinely do need others to speak for us.

They might call you 'obnoxious' or 'reaching' but in times like that please remember that we are not a rhetorical tool

Trans men in the global south are REAL PEOPLE. Bringing us up is never 'strawmanning' or 'missing the point' or any other stupid ass excuse because we are not an imaginary 'other'.

It is always a good idea to bring up global southern trans men. And DO NOT let them make you feel guilty about it

<3

[hellofmychoice]

The idea that Testosterone is a “more powerful” hormone than Estrogen is just blatant sexism btw.

[naga-noia]

people will be BLATANTLY and VIOLENTLY transphobic against transmascs + spit the most vile intersexist/exorsexist bullshit youve ever seen in your entire life, and then still be marked green on shinigami eyes

like are you fucking kidding me. jesus christ

it doesn't even matter whether or not you think transandrophobia is "real" at this point, this is just active transphobia. Period. it doesn't matter how you spin it. you can mark people like this as green as you want, that doesn't mean I'm ever going to feel safe.

no excuse is going to convince me that any of these people (or the shinigami eyes extension itself) are "trans-friendly." active intersexism/exorsexism/transphobia (yes, even aimed at those "shitty tme tboys!") is not "trans-friendly." this isn't up for debate. stop pretending like it is. you can't pick and choose which trans people are okay to support and which ones are "acceptable targets." this is fucking nasty

[chickenmaninphilly]

"trans men have to face this" "oh so trans women don't???"

"women" and "men" don't contradict each other. they are not a mirror for each other. the fact that men do this doesn't mean that women do the opposite. the fact that men have to face a problem, does not mean that women don't have to face it (and vice versa). the are not mirrors. they are identities. they have their OWN characteristics. stop pretending they are polar opposites. this isn't 1870 anymore.

[ivyroseiris]

I thought the queer community understood that having to hide a part of yourself is not a privilege, but a lot of people seem to forget that when it comes to trans men

Trans men, trans women, and nonbinary people (who are constantly erased in the conversation btw) all experience oppression in similar but different ways and yall keep just wanting to play oppression olympics while tearing the community apart with what might very well be a psyop

[cybercrowz]

hey so terms like “ tme “ “ transandrobro “ “ transmen “ “ transtrender “ are harmful and are literally made up to make trans men look bad and be erased from the only spaces they feel safe (trans spaces)

hope this helps

[lycandrophile]

the cis maternal urge to treat your trans son’s body like an extension of your own body, and to react to said trans son’s physical transition as if they might as well have just started hacking away at your own body with a rusty axe, really is something else.

my mom hasn’t seen my chest post-op at all because the idea of it is so awful to her that the one time we took my bandages off with her present, she ran across the hotel room to hide from it and started crying to my brother about it (yes, with actual tears). she drove an hour and a half with us at 5:30am to my post-op just to sit in the waiting room because she refused to come in and see me after the surgeon took the bandages off. my dad has been the only one helping me with recovery things like changing bandages and monitoring healing because she still won’t look at my chest.

and she says that’s because she loves me and cares about me. love is when you treat the body your child can finally live in comfortably like it’s your worst nightmare. apparently.

[systemramblings]

Can someone genuinely tell me why there’s such an issue against the terms trans men use to describe oppression specifically to us transmascs?