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Why "Transandrophobia Does Not Exist" dismisses Intersectionality and Race.

When I have lengthy discussions with other blogs like this, I tend to repost my side to make it it's own post. I will include additional information, of course.

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The claim that "transandrophobia does not exist" and that "men are not oppressed for being men" are steeped in not only racism but is the antithesis of transfeminist intersectionality.

When men with intersectional identities are oppressed, they are not oppressed in the same ways women of those same intersections are. This is because intersectionality focuses on the person as a whole, and not a set of parts. Coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, Intersectionality was first meant to describe how overlapping sums of marginalized identity relate to systems of power, like the patriarchy. As such, intersectionality opposes the idea that an entire person can be analyzed in isolated parts.

For example, a black trans woman does not face racism, transphobia, and misogyny but instead faces an entirely unique form of oppression named transmisogynoir. She is not faced with these because all three of these oppressions "exist", it is that all three of these materially affect her everyday life as a sum of her parts. The point is, misogyny does not have to exist against the majority group for the minority group to experience it. The majority of white people do not face racism, but that does not mean that it does not exist. The majority of men do not get hurt by the androphobia in their circles, but that does not mean that people are not afraid of masculinity and men there.

Let's loop back. Intersectionality is meant to describe marginalized people, and while intersectionality can apply to those who are not marginalized, it is not made to analyze their relation to power as their relation to power is not overlapping - it is direct. A cishet perisex man who is not currently poor, not currently disabled, and is a patriarch is not a marginalized man. His relation to systems of power is clear, he directly benefits from it. That is what I call units of oppression. If intersectionality focuses on the sum, units of oppression focus on the individual parts. Units opposes axis, as axis usually imply one or two interlocking states (such as trans and woman), while units tally up the entirety of self (black, trans, woman, poor, disabled, etc).

Thus, the backward notion of "androphobia isn't faced by men so transandrophobia cannot exist" is a failed argument. Not only does the conversation not surround non-marginalized men when we speak about intersectionality, the failure of the transfeminist movement to recognize that leads to arguments like this. When we deny marginalized groups of people the ability to name their own oppression, we also deny racialized, disabled, poor, and other groups the ability to do the same under the same argument; that it is not systemic and therefore does not hurt anyone. Not only is that statistically false, but black feminists have discussed this matter. While recognizing that black feminism needed to be created to distance from the racism of the first/second wave feminism and from the androcentric black power movement, black feminism encourages and puts value in the ability for black men to be and to express themselves underneath black feminism. Most black feminists recognize that misandronoir is a real problem faced by black men from white peers without ignoring the idea that black men can enforce the same subjugation they deal with against black women.

The act of saying "transandrophobia does not exist" excuses the consequences of intersecting identities that, usually, black and brown trans/intersex people face. It is to claim that it is justified for a black man to not be able to say that he has been harmed for being a man. The trans man is oppressed for being a man because he is transitioning towards manhood. You cannot separate the gender from the transness the same way you cannot separate the trans woman from her womanhood. She experiences life as a woman and he experiences life as a man, and those two experiences are affected by how their transness is perceived and how "real" their gender presentation is. This goes for people of color too. People of color were oftentimes not seen as their gender/sex because of their race, and that adds a layer of racism when those experiences are denied.

When an asian man is infantilized, so is an asian woman - but hers is uniquely rooted in misogyny. This though, does not mean that the asian man does not experience his own struggles with infantilization and fetishization of the fantastical skinny Koren twink. A man being portrayed as a predator in spaces where he holds no power to be the ruling class/oppressor class (white, abled, cis, etc) is a form of androphobia (page 85.)

Androphobia is the irrational, medical fear of masculinity or men. It oftentimes becomes androsexism in which people use intersexism, dyadism, and attack non-hegemonic/intersex forms of masculinity. most people who are androsexist are men themselves, not women, and no one claims that women are androsexist unless they are making intersexist jokes. Any form of "this gender does not face oppression" is rooted in racism the same way "intersex people are all bigenital" is rooted in sexism.

This is not the argument that men suddenly have their ability to use sexism erased because of their marginalized status, it is arguing that misogyny and privilege are not biological or social factors given to men but rather up kept by the patriarchy's systems that both subjugates men and women. If maleness and gender are not biological, why is the patriarchy deemed a biological addition to a child?

Furthermore, it is a racist action to point out that men, as a united whole, are not oppressed for the act of being men. While pointing out that white cishet perisex men are less likely to be affected by androsexism and are not oppressed for being men isn't a racist action, it is indeed part of racism to avoid nuance and intersectionality when discussing genders and their various positions in relation to power. If that sum of a being (gender, sex, disability, class, etc) is historically barred entry for their gender or sex, they are oppressed for being that because that is not given to them. White men are given the privilege of being seen as real men because they do not have those same barriers unless they are trans, intersex, poor, disabled, etc. This is the same for trans women, where there is a standard of pretty privilege similar to cis women and the desperate need to pass as a form of protection(page 2.)

On the topic of trans men not challenging the patriarchy by being men, that is a nuanced conversation as well. Trans men don't challenge patriarchal structures the same way trans women also don't challenge these structures. The very act of being a binary trans person in a world where being binary and conformant is expected is not a challenge to the patriarchy at all, yet the mere act of being trans/intersex is an attack on the status quo. So now we have two groups who both attack and surrender themselves to what is known as the patriarchy and its expectations. This is a big problem in the trans community, even nonbinary people do it, where we have chosen that instead of destroying the spaces that do not welcome us - we ask them to accept us. There is no amount of acceptance a transphobic cis person can do for a trans woman to make her feel like she is who she is. Relying on the patriarchal structure of gendering things as man and woman at all is an act of not challenging the patriarchy. If you are transitioning to womanhood and do not put in the work to deconstruct your internalized misogyny, your racism, or your sexism, you are not challenging the patriarchy the way you claim to be(page 2.) If you are transitioning and you do not put in the work to change what woman/man means other than "opposite" to each other or otherwise think that cisness is the default by not reframing who gets to be a man or a woman (using "gender is social, sex is biological"), you are not challenging the patriarchy.

Androsexism is interpersonal sexism. It is the result of defining, subjugating, and furthermore attacking forms of masculinity, manhood, and marginalized masculines. Butch lesbians specifically experience butchphobia. Which is the intersection between androphobia, lesbophobia, and misogyny. Transgender men face transandrosexism because of the intersections between transphobia, cissexism, and androphobia. Those three make unique experiences the trans man suffers from - and transandrophobia can intersect with racism and ableism. Trans men do in fact have these lived realities of nuanced identities under oppressive power structures. The oppression is their transmasculinity being targeted and their identities being downplayed as "pooners" and much more on the same level as trans women.

The excuse that it is the trans man's "femaleness" or his "transness" that gets him in trouble is degendering/third-gendering him. It places him into a category of "other" rather than man. It decouples his gender from him to form an argument that doesn't include him, that misgenders and uses bioessentialism against him. He is a man, and he is harmed for being one. The person who coined transandrophobia is a man of color, and he details that people's fear in men begets the fear of trans men as a whole. The production, the fear of masculinization of "girls", the sexualization of the "feminine" sex on masculine bodies, and the misogyny thrown against them with words like "transandrocunt" and "pooner" are all there.

If the phrase "transandrophobia does not exist" was pointing out how men benefit from the patriarchy, it would confront trans men's ability to benefit from internalized misogyny and androsexism and not that they do not face oppression for being trans men. The phrase decenters trans people and recenters cis persisex men in order to claim that trans men are not trans.

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Snippets from the first few chapters of Suddenly, A Man

while i do not believe people are ready to talk about how racist gender and sex are as concepts, i do believe that this blog has become something of a theory sharing one. if you are ready to discuss this with me, i suggest buying the book when it is released.

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"Instead of proposing that the trans woman and everyone else battles misogyny as their first fight, the recognition of racism as the first, universal plight is not only logical but is materially applicable." "Trans exclusionary radical feminists have an uncanny fascination with the sex of black and brown people, to the point where athletes like Barbra Benda, Caster Semenya, and Imane Khelif were not being transvestigated, but rather being subject to intersexism as means of preserving the "integrity of female athletics."" "Relying entirely on an "all men endanger all women" mindset is incorrect thinking as it reduces everybody to a monolith who can only experience victimhood if they are feminine and a woman. What is often forgotten with intersections like these in the trans community is what I call Inverse Gendered Expectations. A trans woman is subjugated for choosing femininity and womanhood because she used to hold a position as a boy, but when those expectations are inverse, a trans man would have to suffer the rigorous environment she couldn't benefit from."

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The Failure of Sisters, Brothers

Azriel Pierce; transRAGEer, author, and womanist.

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Religious Becoming

There has yet to be an uprising consisting of nonbinary people specifically. I wish to change that.

Not only in the Americas but in other continents as well.

I do not ascribe to the function of inciting anger without action, resistance without plan, or destruction without construction. Continuing to expand are small upticks in nonbinary and intersex liberation that grow bigger and bigger as time goes on. I know you are hearing their names; Nex Benedict, Dominic DuPree, Tortuguita Terán, Ezra Hulett. All of them died while being marginalized by systemic powers. These "upticks" are caused by community-wide noise over the deaths and murders of nonbinary and intersex people. The immediate reaction to Nex's death was to fight over their pronouns, to erase the material oppression they faced, to point back to their assigned sex to categorize them. All of them were misgendered at their first reports.

At the crux of their deaths, I did not hear mourning from the wider transbinary community. I did not hear of Ezra's social murder, I did not hear of Dominic's homicide, I did not hear of the brutality faced by Tortuguita. I did hear of internet slogans and transfem vs transmasc drama. Yet I did not hear bells of rebellion in our material reality to mourn them, something that more fortunate transbinary people are gifted with.

There is religious fear in the nonbinary.

That is the fear of those who can act outside of the boxes given, freely, without charge and without patriarchal labor enforced upon them. The patriarchy is heavily guarded by religious beliefs of the male and female, as well as their role in the creation of life, and the perfect family. While trans women and trans men invoke feelings of disgust and anger in the religious zealot, nonbinary and intersex people are dehumanized as "divine androgynes," Satanic symbols of chimerism, and gender-breakers who are not only transitioning but normalizing it. There is no escaping the construction of religious female and male that transbinary people seem to be able to transcend with enough acceptance.

Like clockwork, Voices argue that the religious fear is unjustified for the misinformation on Satanic practices. Usually these are Western, spiritual voices on topics like non-Western nonbinarity. Instead of defending our realities as nonbinary, they defend our right to be labeled "Satanic." In countries like Iran, Turkey, and Lebanon, transsexuality is a forgiven sin if a transgender person is 1) conforming transbinary and 2) heterosexual. Nonbinarity, homosexuality, xeninity, and forms of androgyny are oftentimes punishable by death - and that is because of religious power. Spiritual voices do not understand that nonbinary people suffer greater injustices in religious contexts because of religious assimilation. Most nonbinarity is depicted through divine, mystical, nonhuman, or omniscient deities.

These white spiritual voices enter spaces predominantly filled by black and brown cultural beliefs and declare their voice as an oppressed outcry when they experience one look of disgust by a Christian who turns sideways to anyone "unholy," doing it more to the blacks/browns. So the commentary made by spiritual voices on nonbinarity/intersexness as deserving of being dehumanized, revered, and bowed to as "male-females" is evident that many spiritual people just haven't experienced the material harm done by clerical powers for nonbinarity, haven't been restricted by religious systems on the basis of their transition, and haven't had their physical forms moderated by the belief that they are "invoking" evil through rejecting the gender binary.

The intrinsic act of labeling nonbinarity as this divine or nonhuman symbol is degendering nonbinary people, and when nonbinary people engage in these same spiritual beliefs, they are confronted with how these people really see us, as labels and terms.

This pattern does not exist in isolation.

Nonbinarity is rejected as its own subject, its own topic, without the mention of the binary. When practicing faith, nonbinary and intersex people are expected to choose religious depictions of the male or female to define their roles in said practice, and even modern paganism might dabble in dualism just to rub it in the enban's face that they exist at a crossroads of two opposite sites, never, ever, allowed to meet. Your Triple Goddess and Horned God cannot fuse, they are separate parts, you have religiously established this. Nonbinarity is then seen as divine union, a symbol, a togetherness instead of as a separate person. Nonbinary people, in most contexts, as not seen as people who are able to build and define their own struggles. Instead of asking what brought upon the realities of nonbinary people, religious practices that binarize us are excused as "cultural" facets. The observers of nonbinary oppression default to their lived experiences of binaryhood in order to make a comparison, their frameworks and understandings failing at describing exactly what we detail. The religious depictions of nonbinarity are stripped from our history.

It is comfortable for the religious to recognize the transbinary before the nonbinary, or to recognize the nonbinary as a lifestyle rather than an identity.

It is here that the assertion of gender dysphoria as a medical issue becomes the weight of a nonbinary person's patriarchal labor. This labor is not given to any other people besides enbans and the intersexed. It is easy for brain scans to prove "femaleness" or "maleness" through colors on a sheet, but it is harder for them to situate where the othered sit. It is easier to prove that since religion has place for the binary, there would be those with "female souls" in "male bodies," but if no othered soul is made and no other body was created - where do you align the othered?

So when nonbinary people in the 2010s declared transmedicalism as scum, it was not because they believed in trans science and hormones, it was because it was the same religious dogma used against us in our history was being used as medical violence against treating us. The sacred, fulfilling fe/male body was something trans people could fit into instead of abolish as binary and restrictive. The backlash from voices all over told us that the systems specifically targeting us were fruitful, and our disapproval was reframed as scientific ignorance to "real" trans bodies. We were thus engaging in transphobia against the binary gendered. It is here where the religious becoming of the enban and intersexed are seen as acceptable only because they were objects to compare and contrast to transsexuals. The enban and intersexed had to exist in some immaterial form (spiritual), otherwise there would be no opposite to transsexuality as a means of contrasting their material form.

Objection to oppression was a lifestyle for those more privileged to not have experienced the labor of nonbinarity, with depictions of us raising flags but not hands, it was all meant to deter us from actually deconstructing the gender binary. We are "already fighting" to be seen, we are "already building" gender-neutral bathrooms, we are "already creating" inclusive language. This is what people who are not othered are telling us. This is not what we are doing. This is not what we are allowed to do.

Binarity as Law, Literature, and Culture

Have you ever been told that God made two sexes, male and female, and that your biology is a fact? Now, have you ever been told that you have a disorder of sex development, disordered in your maleness or femaleness, given the wrong sex and fixed through surgery?

Have you ever been told that you don't exist at all? That there's only two that can be transitioned between - but never three, never four, never more?

The gender binary are not just displaced religious statements. They are patriarchal, anti-feminist powerhouses centered on using religious statements as law, literature, and culture. Who has the rights to bear arms, who has the rights to protection, who has the rights to housing and insurance. Who is written about, who is depicted as normal, who is declared as wrong. Who is culturally available, who is prayed to, who is made equally in the eyes of the people.

The churches, your school, those prisons, this healthcare, our housing. All of these accumulate as patriarchal powerhouses in a binary gendered system. The religious doctrine attempting to seep back into school systems is not built upon the idea that we are losing faith, it is funded in order to stitch the line between church and state, to depict the acceptance of gender "ideologies", which are usually described as non-binary, she/they/it "nonsense", as evils that caused it. To rebinarize the world. The church survives because the binary is not fought, it is just ignored. So the objection to transmedicalism, to dualistic faith, to binary schooling, and to sex essentialism is not an offense on your cultural standards or your trans science; it is the justified death of binary enforcement.

Nonbinarity is not an American Gen Z fad, though popularized with the term "nonbinary", it has always been an ancient identity stemming from religious and cultural beliefs.

Its expansion into xenic genders and other terminology is natural progression in a religious society that dehumanizes every chance at neutrality or androgyny. In Eurocentric belief systems, transness and nonbinarity are not yet subject to death or imprisonment, but transphobia and exorsexism are realities that cause countless of homicides and suicides. The violence caused from transgendered oppression is normalized but it is not enforced here. Your teachers are not told by the government to prosecute or diagnosis you with gender dysphoria. Your churches do not report you to the police for being nonbinary or trans.

But in other countries, religious dogma tells you to protect yourself and your children with mandatory, required testing, and reinforced legal boundaries that keep you inside that box. Religious beliefs, in non-Eurocentric countries, are not minority beliefs like they would be elsewhere.

Sex Abolition is called Divisive

Go up to any transbinary person and tell them that you want to abolish sex, gender, and redefine the boundaries of ASAB. See how quickly they agree with your abolishment of gender, but not ASAB and sex. Sex is a physical factor, the transbinary person will say. Sex is why we take hormones and get surgeries, they say. Sex is stored in the biological, they say, and we can become the opposite sex, they shout!

Abolition is not a cultural critique of how people live their lives. Abolition is not a means of dislikes and opinions. It is refusal in allowing patriarchal powers to define how we get our HRT, how we fund our surgeries, how we school our children, how we communicate our language and identity. To the average transmedicalist, all of these should be regulated by the medical system. Our HRT should be sourced from cisgendered professionals, our surgeries should be done by those who are interested in making us cissexual, our schools should be more accepting to the kids who pass, all while not changing a damn thing about how we perceive what as what and who as who.

Transmedicalism is the only accepted form of transness in non-Western countries.

Failures on Failures on Failures

Not all of our brothers and sisters fail us, but they don't exactly see us as siblings either.

It doesn't have to be a community that agrees with each other, just a network of separate people creating spaces of non-patriarchal power through kinship. I do not want a trans woman responsible for whether or not the government is allowed to kill me, I want a trans woman responsible for creating systems that destroy the government's patriarchal power. I don't want a trans man sitting in office, I want a trans man willing to die poor after giving funds to new systems that will give us proper healthcare. Those are the brothers and sisters I am looking at to uphold sex abolition, not Sarah McBride.

There is something extremely disgusting about our sisters and brothers watching us reclaim identities such as fagdyke, cistrans, AFAB trans woman, transmasc lesbian and responding not with joy for our sex abolition but rather in rejection of nonbinarity and intersexness. They hold moral opinions over whether or not you can be "both" and whether or not your gender is "transfeminized" enough. A nonbinary person who is all binary except in gender is not going to stop being nonbinary, nor are they rewarded any of the privileges of the binary.

It is disturbing to still be in the climate where the height of infighting is reduced to "whiny AFABs" and "angry AMABs."

Telling nonbinary and intersex people that their oppression is lesser than yours is historically incorrect. The truth of the matter is that racism was the first sin, sexism was the second, and transphobia spawned from hysterical disgust of both being challenged by sex changes and gender ideology. Was it the trans people in the U.S being unjustly culled at the start of history? Or was it the intersex, nonbinary, and trans people of color being religiously annexed by colonialism and facism? People of color go through intersexism at higher rates than white people. People of color deal with exorsexism at higher rates. People of color deal with transphobia at higher rates. Racism has persisted in the demonization of all nonbinary people, and that fact has been obscured by the compulsive need to place people into sexed boxes of female and male. Who gets to be female and who gets to be male if we define transmisogyny and transandrosexism as exclusive to the crossed-sexed individuals of the binary?

When cultural genders often described as nonbinary were being erased from history, was it because they didn't respect their pronouns? Or was it because they looked the Devil in the eyes and slaughtered their populations to fix defects? Did they shuttle and accept that they were the Devil's children when religious majorities culled them? No? So why are we not abolishing the same sexual labors and reinforcement that make us "women" and "men"? Why are we using these labors to justify ourselves into boxes of "material gender"? Why are we proving ourselves "true" transsexuals by spreading open and letting the patriarchy rewrite what transness means into a palatable lifestyle change?

Nonbinary and intersex people call out these failures our brothers and sisters perform as methods to be accepted in the eyes of the religious male and female. We say very clearly that some of us are fe/male too. That some of us are wo/men too. That some of us are AFAB, AMAB too. Some of us are sisters, brothers too. They reject this notion. We cannot materially exist on the same plane as our assigned sex because then we are just cisgender, we cannot materially exist on the same plane as other genders because then we are just trans wo/men, and we can't materially exist as non-binary or intersex because then we are denying trans science.

It angers me not that there are ways a transbinary person can be accepted that nonbinary people can't, it is simply the inexperience they hold.

Nonbinary and intersex people do not owe you anything that could make them less or more of who they are. They do not owe you transness, cisness, divinity, civil accusation, allyship, or neat little boxes. Intersex people do not owe perisex people translations of their liberation, their terminology, nor do they need to provide softer ways of saying that you are sexist. Nonbinary people do not owe binary people sex, their genitalia, their cooperation, nor do they need to protect your right to sex essentialism.

Solidarity does not appear before your eyes like a magic trick, it is created when two or more groups recognize that their shared material realities are killing them uniquely and without sparing a single one of us.

The way of transmedicalism for nonbinary people to prove themselves biologically othered does not reduce the cost, the risk, and the struggle of being nonbinary. It does not make nonbinary survival in a binarist world easier. Transbinary Inclusive Cultural Feminism does not create possibilities of non-Western, non-Eurocentric nonbinarity to exist. It does not recognize cultural genders as what they are, cultural, and often nonbinary. It produces anger, hate, and mobility without the added protection, legal rights, and sanctuary. You will march the streets one day but be housed under the binary structure another day.

For those who are not dependent on success to be trans-mutated into survival, they are seeking a vision to fund temporarily. Failure is a surviving feat for those who are not binarized. The failures of our sisters, brothers to destroy sex and gender; they are placed onto nonbinary and intersex lives.

We Are Not Free When You Are

Nonbinary people must understand that our freedom does not rely on the abolishment of transmisogyny or transandrosexism. Exorsexism and intersexism will still persist afterwards, as they were defined before the two.

Transmisogyny cannot exist without the defined target of transfem, trans women, transfeminized. These are not ancient definitions, they did not exist until the abstract concepts of what transfeminine was were placed together - similar to sex, which are traits commonly found together/in isolation in a flux of gonadal, hormonal, or chromosomal placements. The same goes for transandrosexism.

What history described as the Gallae is transfeminine, but the (excuse my usage) hermaphrodites are not yours to claim. What history described as Iphis' transformation is transmasculine, but bearded ladies are not yours to claim. Binary transness as a defined state is consistently changing throughout history, but the binary of system of power can always identify nonbinarity and intersexness as "abnormal," and have.

Intersexness has been recognized before intersexness was defined the way we do it now since 2nd millennium BCE, with the binary in place back then being fluid or not yet enforced through anti-transition. Nonbinarity has been defined in different ways but it always revovles around the "third" or "other" genders since 400 BCE. There was no "trans woman" or "trans man," the sex at birth did not make someone less of a man or less of a woman for choosing the other - transitioning wo/men were just becoming wo/men, not trans wo/men as we define it now.

Exorsexism and intersexism have existed longer because racism has existed longer.

In that, nonbinary and intersex people must recognize that in order to fight everyone's oppression - it is not transmisogyny or transandrosexism we might individually fight - it is racism.

The racism in gender.

The racism in sex.

The racism in law.

The racism in religion.

The racism in culture.

The racism in feminism.

The racism in queerness.

Until transfeminism, transmisogyny, transandrosexism, and until our sisters and brothers begin to communicate about how racism is at the forefront of every part of their gendered/sexed oppression, we do not owe them our allyship.

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i have, written down, the tenants of each foundational movement that makes up the core of a trans radical gender expansionist's beliefs..

my only real issue now is further adding them into the text that was already written up by directly mentioning it and how to use it. this is going to be easy yes but... well.. uhm.

its snowing outside and i want to take a break.