#transmed

[rouge-the-bat]

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[cdigoddess]

[stfloweronreddit]

Guys we need transmedicalism

[jamesmirandabarry]

I am SOOO tired of the “trans men can’t be lesbians” discourse.

I fear you guys just don’t get the life experience of being a trans man (who used to be perceived as a woman and still is by some people) who likes only women. I am never going to be a cisgender man and I don’t want to be. I am a man in most social scenarios but in romantic ones I am a butch. Living in our heteronormative society, being on T but with no surgeries, I feel more aligned with the butch romantic experience than cisgender men.

Women who are attracted to me still like female bodies. I haven’t had any surgeries and I don’t want them. I’m simply on T, which means I am seen as a man by society…with all my clothes on. I’m a man with a female body. Both of these things exist at the same time, it’s just part of my lived reality. This means I’m seen as a man to broader society, which is my goal, but I still have a female body which effects how I navigate the world. This includes in healthcare/reproductive rights and also sexually.

If a lesbian is only attracted to femininity, then yes, she won’t like me and I don’t want her to. But if she likes masculinity and female bodies, which very much can be the case in lesbianism, then yes, I am in that category. To say that lesbians can’t like masculinity is extremely reductive tbh and erases butches entirely.

[cishetlessfashion]

How I sleep at night knowing my 5'11, broad shouldered, voice that's usually clocked as male on the phone, jawline having, amazing top surgery results ass passes better and is considered more 'valid' by society as a whole than 90% of the crybaby transmeds in my inbox, and that's probably why they're so bitter in the first place

[a-polite-melody]

I’m absolutely fascinated by a claim that’s come out of TRF circles a few different times now, which is that “transandrobros” are the newest iteration of truscum.

I’ve seen the claim a few separate times now, and each time the only support that this claim has behind it is the “logic” that:

1. Truscum were a group of trans people with bad ideology

2. Truscum were almost entirely trans men (citation needed, even though I’m just going to take it as true for the rest of the post)

Who else (to the people making this comparison) are a group of almost entirely trans men with bad ideology? Transandrobros!

Which is… an interesting way to try to make a connection. Because if we look at what the ideology actually is, the fact that it’s just “bad” ideology, or ideology a particular person doesn’t agree with doesn’t exactly marry these two concepts together.

If anything, the people arguing against the idea of transandrophobia employ more of the tactics and follow more of the ideology traced out by truscum.

Truscum ideology was about defining who is trans by way of, basically, if they’re trying hard enough to become a stealthing trans person. If you weren’t trying to pass as a cis looking person of the opposite binary gender as to what you were assigned, then you weren’t really trans by this ideology. Nonbinary? By truscum ideology, that’s just a fake identity made up by cis people who want to feel special.

Where, exactly, does this mesh at all with what people are taking about when we talk about transandrophobia?

In my experience, as a nonbinary transmasc, who in arguing about transandrophobia existing has used my own experiences as counterpoints and counterexamples to people’s assertion that there’s male privilege given to all trans people who were AFAB…

I’ve been called a theyfab (a slur popularized by truscum)

I’ve been called a trender (truscum term)

I’ve been told I’m obviously not trying hard enough to pass (the definition of truscum ideology)

I’ve had my name mocked for being ambiguous instead of masculine (seeing the trend here yet?)

Are we seeing why I find it really fascinating that people are trying to say that I’m on the side of the truscum? Simply because trans man/masc + ideology someone doesn’t like must always be the same?

[transsexualsmatter]

Trans men cannot be lesbians because they are MEN. If you think trans men can be lesbians, you are transphobic because you are calling them women.