Edit: this turned long and rambly. Apologies. I have a lot of feelings about this.
.The patriarchy sees men as consumers and women as commodities.
It hates trans women for abdicating our purpose in the same way it once hated gay men. We are failed consumers. We are failed competitors in a system that demands both. It seeks to fetishise us to reduce us to commodities.
It hates trans men for refusing to be the commodities it appointed them to be. They are seen as damaged goods. It seeks to fetishise them in order to force them back into their roles as commodities.
Because trans people of every stripe have rejected the roles society has tried to force on us, we do not fit into the system. That makes us a danger to the status quo. We are all labelled as dangers, as predators, as disruptors.
The patriarchy existed long before capitalism. but to my mind, the two have become inextricably intertwined. The bedrock of our society is an unconscious hierarchy of race, class, and gender. 3 pillars that each hold the others up and reinforce the system as a whole.
It is impossible to remove one without removing all 3 at once. Any progress made against just one pillar will be quickly unwound by the other two. In these ways, they keep us divided so that we cannot make a common cause.
Those in power would have us falsely believe that our causes are at odds, that our limited time and energy must be dedicated to only one, to the detriment of the others, in this way they use even our bids for equality as weapons, as tools to divide us anew.
As above, so below. This false narrative of exclusionism has been sown within the LGBT movement, so that lesbians and gays believe their rights are exclusive of trans people and we are a danger to them. So that trans men and women are turned to infighting and are too busy shouting over each other to be heard.
As a trans woman, I believe that trans men are criminally neglected, they are erased and forgotten by the media and by lawmakers just as much as we are held up for ridicule. Their struggles are overlooked and therefore dismissed.
Trans men categorically do not have male privilege.
They are not respected as men. They do not have an easier time passing. They do not get easier access to healthcare. They are not more respected by their peers.
Society more often than not treats trans women as delusional men, to be regarded with fear and suspicion In the same way society treats trans men as delusional women, to be patronised, and infantilised.
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