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[makesomenoise]

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[afusionoffandoms]

5,000 users leave trans subreddit in wake of transmasculine controversy

The r/trans subreddit is supposed to be a place for trans people to share their experiences, but one user says he was met with unnecessary b

A dude makes his own post discussing the ways trans men are statistically suffering far more than people know (for instance how transgender men are especially vulnerable to SA), and how trans men are often overlooked and silenced while trying to bring that fact to light, and he is immediately.... accused of taking attention away from trans women, and then he is trivialised, silenced and banned, confirming the issues he was originally highlighting.

Shocking.

If you stand by trans people, you stand by trans men. And if you stand by trans men, this is your sign to leave the r/trans subreddit in protest and double your effort to support trans men beyond simply chanting "trans men are men" every once in a while.

[intersexfairy]

trans men are not dangerous. your average trans man is does not hold the same power as the average cis man. most trans men are just trying to get by in a world that brings us down constantly. a lot of us still get read as women almost exclusively, and face all the discrimination that comes with that. we're not the danger. we're in danger. and we need protection too.

we're just people who reject the gendered expectations that get pushed on us. that's all. our genders do not determine our values, morals, or worth. we do. as individuals. because we're people. with lives. and dreams. and feelings. and fears. and hopes. we're just people.

[afusionoffandoms]

Gender-affirming care improves trans men's quality of life - LGBTQ Nation

A new study provides crucial information on a community that research often overlooks.

Might I point out why trans masculine research is important:

https://www.thetrevorproject.org/survey-2024/#suicide-by-gender

[venice-1987]

There is a lot of talk about how trans men can be allies to the women in their life. And this is correct.

(There is also a lot of talk to how trans men are "good because we know what its like." I've heard us called "life hacks" for cis women, which is a whole other dehumanizing thing)

But there has been very little talk about how others can be allies to trans men. It seems like conversations start and end at how we can serve other people, and do not extend to how we can be provided with the support we desperately need. It is like people dont view trans men as an actual set of people, much less marginalized people.

[vagathathegreat]

This right here, PERIOD!

[trans-masc-madness]

"trans men have privilege when people don't think they're trans men" imagine if we treated every other minority's oppression like that.

also at this point you're just telling on yourselves. if your only argument for trans men having privilege is that we have privilege when people think we're Not Trans Men, then you have literally just run out of arguments, gone round in circles and accidentally admitted that trans men do not hold systemic privilege.

if a person in a minority group only holds social privilege when no one in that social scenario knows that they are part of that minority then that is called Not Holding Privilege actually. and kind of applies to almost every other minority group ever, including other trans people. only exception I can think of off the top of my head is invisibly disabled people but that experience is very different overall.

TLDR: if you ever find yourself saying "people from X group hold privilege when people don't know they're part of X group", then you need to put down your phone, close the tab, and repeat out loud what you just said. S L O W L Y.

[memory-of-stargazing]

Hating trans men does nothing to help your trans women sisters

Hating trans women does nothing to help your trans men brothers

Hating nonbinaries does nothing to help your binary trans siblings

Stop letting TERFs in disguise divide our community To live we must lift each other up, not punch each other down

[venice-1987]

Im begging people to do the bare minimum to acknowledge the harm JKR has done to trans men and transmasculine people. Im imploring you to realize that her hatred does not pass over us on her way to other people. The first anti trans tweet that kicked off the whole panic was about language that included trans men in menstruation education. One of her first long winded Terf essays was about how the "evil trans craze was capturing our poor little teenage girls in its dirty slimy claws." Her ideas about pseudoscience like "rapid onset gender dysphoria" paved the way for garbage like "irreversible damage" to be written, which in turn is motivating bans on healthcare. JKR has motivated people into denying trans people their healthcare because she feels like we need to strip trans men of their autonomy in order to protect our confused little girly heads.

She has reduced trans men down to our reproductive abilities and infantilized versions of ourselves in order to keep us trapped in traditional gender roles that exploit us and our bodies.

Fucking acknowledged that, at the absolute least. And stop never talking about us.

[anarcho-catboyism]

Idk what trans man needs to hear this but you're NOT evil or disgusting for being a man. You do NOT have to suffer for the sins of the patriarchy committed by cis dudes. Being a man doesn't invalidate the misogyny you experienced growing up or experience now. Being a man doesn't mean you deserve to be isolated. Being a man doesn't mean you're inherently predatory or scary. You didn't "choose" this, and finding your true self is NOT "betraying the community" because you happen to be a man and/or masculine rather than a woman and/or feminine. You ARE allowed to be upset when people "affirm" your gender by malgendering you.

You DO deserve a community that uplifts you. You DO deserve to experience trans joy. You DO deserve to have your voices heard and your struggles recognized. Wanting the bare minimum of solidarity is NOT "making everything about trans men".

[ryan-sometimes]

I’m not falling for the propaganda trying to tear apart the LGBTQ acronym, you can pry this community out of my cold dead hands. I love lesbians I love gay men I love bisexuals I love trans people I love nonbinaries and drag queens and kings I love asexuals I love the kinky people at pride I love all queerness get that divisive shit away from me I’m so serious

[fat-transmasc-experience]

i apologize to my followers for discourse talk, but this was just so utterly absurd and upsetting, i had to say something.

let’s get this out of the way: if this were saying, “ftm-specific support groups that embrace binary trans men and intentionally exclude nonbinary transmascs and intersex people are bad,” i would actually agree! because those groups are exorsexist and intersexist and overall terrible. I love binary trans men, but those trans men recieve my ire.

problem: this is not what these users are bullshitting about!

here’s my glorious list of issues 🫩

intentionally flattening transmascs into “male” in order to malgender us. fun fact: “trans” is not displayed once in this whole screenshot!

assuming that misogyny is stored in the he/him pronouns

saying that a support group for a marginalized and oppressed identity whose youth suicide rate is through the fucking roof should not exist on principle because some members of that group are misogynist (do they fucking want our boys to die???)

ignoring the prevalence of support groups for (pericis) men dedicated to unlearning misogyny which, while not complete on their own, exist in tandem with other resources

somehow failing to realize that “support group” does not mean “insular community dedicated to snark, harassment, and shit talk” and instead means “a safe place to vent, celebrate, and talk about life.” Also ignores how many identity-specific support groups are open to people outside the target demographic

assuming that ftm support groups are male-only in the first place

i’m someone who seeks to uplift and love fat trans men, mascs, and all those adjacent to those identities in any way. users who say such despicable things, promote these vile beliefs, and seek to isolate us from one another are in direct opposition to everything i stand for.

the attempt at isolation really fucking gets me. because transandrophobes want us to isolate. TERFs want us isolated, transphobes want us isolated. maybe they are operating out of a personal vendetta, or perhaps general disdain and anti-transmasculinity.

doesn’t matter. down the line, isolation predictably leads to crisis and suicide. if you agree with these users, i despise you and you are not welcome.

[thequeenoftheentiregoddamnworld]

Hey, hey, look me in the eyes when I tell you this okay? The whole "do trans women or trans men have it worse?" debate going on right now is the most obvious CIA bullshit on earth cause honestly we've both got it pretty shitty and fighting each other isn't helping anyone

[queerintheuk]

Just met a trans man who's going on T because he specifically wants to be bald and i'm afraid to say i think i'm just never gonna meet anyone cooler than that ever again

[lgbtqiatext]

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[just-keep-fighting]

these send me