|| Bigender transmasc boygirl she/he || This is specifically a feminist blog, I mostly talk about transmascs but will frequently expand to talk about feminism in general
My name is V I’m bigender (transmasculine) and I post a lot about how my identity intersects with misogyny. I believe that I am fully a woman as well as fully a man although I live most of my life as a woman. I could also be classed as genderqueer or androgyne but I don’t call myself that as often.
If you’re going to make a callout post about me at least @ me I love attention
Running list of things I’ve been called because I think it’s funny, if you hate me please feel free to add to this list. All of these come from either TERFs or transmasc targeting transphobes
Middle aged British woman
Most mentally ill trans man
Least obvious transandro
Sock puppet
Deranged psycho
TMRA trying to poison transfeminism
Transmasc Ben Shapiro
Pathetic cisgender woman/fake trans
Terven princess
Bitch (x14), Cunt (x11), Pooner (x3), Slut (x1)
Nicies list
cool and awesome human being whose blog gives me hope that the storm of transandrophobia on tumblr will pass and we shall all see beautiful dawns someday.
Some more info about me and my beliefs under the cut:
I’m pretty critical of the trans community because it’s my home and I love it. I don’t want us to have to live in a house with broken windows and leaky faucets just because we’re convinced that we can never have anything better. I want better for us. I want us to be safe and happy and I don’t want any of us to be shoved aside as if we don’t matter. Trans liberation should not only be available for white binary trans people who pass. We need more love for trans people of color outside of turning dead Black trans women into saints without ever listening to what they fought for. We need more love for trans people outside of the imperial core, especially those who don’t speak English or who struggle with it. We need more love for intersex people no matter how they identify. We need love for people who, seeking acceptance from a community who is meant to love and care for them, are told that their issues are “too complicated” or “derailing the conversation”. To the people on the fringes: I love you.
One thing that’s going to be controversial about me is that I will be referring to myself as female. I don’t believe that it’s useful to me to say I’ve changed my sex or that I’m not deeply affected by the patriarchal, sexist society we live in. I don’t believe this is “self misgendering” as I literally don’t believe that it’s possible to misgender yourself and I also don’t think sex and gender are the same thing. If you, the person reading this, do not identify this way that’s fine but please don’t try to change the way I speak about my body and my oppression because it makes you uncomfortable. I don’t believe that your identity has any impact on mine or my validity and I hope you will extend me the same courtesy.
I do also believe in *some* of the tenets of radical feminism. I mean this with as much emphasis as possible: some. I don’t believe in trans exclusion, I’m not a lesbian separatist, etc etc. What I do believe is that gender is a construct that has mostly been used to create a sexist hierarchical society (think gender roles and stereotypes). In my ideal post-patriarchal world, nobody would be trans in the way that no one would be cis, we would all just use whatever clothes and pronouns we wanted and there would be no hierarchy. I also believe that sex based oppression is real and I don’t think misogyny could exist without it. This does not mean I don’t believe in transmisogyny or that I think all misogyny is sex based.
Another important thing I believe is that we really *really* need to do more to center trans voices outside of the imperial core. White people in the trans community (including myself) also need to stop appropriating language used specifically about racial violence (eg “digital lynching” to refer to blogs getting banned) and language that is hyperbolic to the point of meaninglessness (calling bans on gender affirming care for children in the US “genocide”)
As a last note I’m sincerely uninterested in any discourse that completely ignores misogyny as a monstrous violent force in our world. If I see one more person talk about “AFAB privilege” or say female specific issues like pregnancy, abortion, FGM, menstrual stigma, lack of inclusion in medical studies, child marriage, (I could go on forever) don’t matter as much as what trans people in the US go through I’m going to lose my mind.
Watching people, especially people on the left, come up with justifications for forced pregnancy and birth (ie. “fixing” population decline, not liking selective abortion for chromosomal abnormalities or birth defects, “what if the father wants to be a single dad”, etc) disgusts me but doesn’t surprise me. The uterus has always been considered a public resource rather than part of a human being.
I’m going to be honest, the fact that the vast majority of people in queer and feminist Tumblr - ALL of queer and feminist Tumblr, including ‘transandrophobia’ Tumblr and ‘transfeminist’/‘TRF’ Tumblr - have barely read any feminist scholarship at all drives me up the wall.
So-called TRFs like to act like Julia Serano is Girl Jesus but the vast majority of them have never read more than a few out of context quotes (if that) and are repeating badly-understood arguments that they have encountered on stage six of a poorly conceived game of text post telephone. I don’t much like Whipping Girl, I think it’s full of pseudoscience and it is fundamentally stunted by a profound lack of understanding of how sexism works for anyone who isn’t a binary trans woman. But even so, the insistence, even by people who tout Serano as the savior of all feminism, that the argument she makes are so simplistic and obvious that they can be understood through a half dozen 100 word post formulated in the style of an Epic Takedown of Le TMEs is extremely dismissive of this accomplished female scholar’s intelligence. It is, quite frankly, sexist.
And over here on ‘transandrophobia Tumblr’ (or whatever you want to call it) it’s not much better. I believe the people writing text posts sharing their experiences and thoughts are well meaning and they often form coherent arguments regardless of any readings they may or may not have done. But there is this underlying sentiment that the works of feminist scholarship that have been written in the half-decade plus that it’s been since the beginning of the mainstream feminist movement (not to mention all the writing by people suffering under patriarchy in the entirety of human history including from outside the global North) are at best full of outdated truisms that we enlightened Modern People already perfectly understand and at worst noxious tripe written by the bad people with the bad ideas that we should blacklist out of history.
It’s not my intention to be aggressive or accusatory or confrontational so forgive my fervent tone, I write like this because it’s an issue I’m very passionate about. But I will not mince words: this refusal to read the words of people who came before us, who analyzed gender and sexuality issues and what being oppressed for gender/sex/sexuality does to a person’s mind and soul and material reality and how these issues interact with other axes of oppression and much more besides, is stunting our advancement, as individuals, as a (trans) community, and as a (anti-misogyny, anti-transphobia, anti-intersexism, pro-bodily autonomy, etc.) movement. It is stopping all of us from being intellectually richer and increase our understanding of ourselves and our relationship to the world and other people.
Read more feminism. Read proto-feminism, read Marxist feminism, read liberal feminism, read Black feminism, read radical feminism, read postcolonial feminism, read materialist feminism, read ecofeminism, read Indigenous feminism, read transfeminism, read post-structural feminism, read transhumanism, read queer theory, read African feminism, read Chicana feminism, read feminisms I can’t even think of or have never even heard about.
Read it, underline it, annotate it, find new insights in it, disagree with it, hate it, throw it at the wall, reflect on it, recommend it to friends, discuss it, argue about it, compare one type to another, measure it out in your mind, be puzzled by it, be confused by it, be surprised by it, be moved by it, be bored by it, tear off the pages and eat them when you’re done for all I care. But please, PLEASE: read more feminism.
genuine question, why do you think transmasc voices project is a troll? ty
Because I can’t read and didn’t notice that “transmascVOICESproject” and “transmascVOICEproject”(emphasis mine) were different blogs until an hour or two ago. I think voices is a traumatized person making poor choices, not a troll.
Too feminist for trans tumblr too trans for feminist tumblr just right for pissing everyone off and doing whatever the fuck I want and saying exactly whatever the fuck I think because I’ve been doing that my whole life and I didn’t even stop when it made cis men 3x my age sexually harass me about it
It’s this blog that’s collecting stories of transmascs who have been assaulted by transfems basically doing the same thing as the popular transfem voices project but flipped. It’s run by someone who is not transmasc and it’s like 99.9 percent certain it’s a troll blog.
Obviously “the transmasc voices project” is a load of troll horseshit but it’s funny how many people are just self reporting
Like yeah… someone who is drunk cannot consent to sex and has every right to call that assault, especially if the other person isn’t drunk. Has this happened to you a lot yay-bunnies? It’s interesting that this thought occurred to you.
All I’m saying is that there has *never* been a branch of feminism this concerned about false allegations. There has never been a group of people who truly believed they were the end all be all of feminism who thought that believing survivors was bigotry.
Obviously “the transmasc voices project” is a load of troll horseshit but it’s funny how many people are just self reporting
Like yeah… someone who is drunk cannot consent to sex and has every right to call that assault, especially if the other person isn’t drunk. Has this happened to you a lot yay-bunnies? It’s interesting that this thought occurred to you.
It’s interesting whenever they try to manufacture new insecurities because genuinely wtf is a hip dip. I wasn’t aware it was possible to *not* have those because, you know, bones
Ok so we're just doing full mask off misogyny now. "How little fondness I have for cis women as a class". I dont care what you use to dress it up, that's just misogyny, yes even if you're a woman as well.
Also just admitting there's literally no scenario in which she will respect a transmasc, or person who was AFAB in general. That is the fact of the matter, she "has little fondness" for cis women and even less for transmascs.
"There's no hypothetical scenario you can cook up where our social positions are inverted". This is bioessentialism. Its not saying that part out loud but that's what this boils down to. The social positions are that it believes people assigned female at birth are privileged by virtue of being "TME."
And of course, ending this off with the cherry on top of implying any criticism of this rhetoric is just a path towards detransitioning.
And then OOP has the gall to turn around and say "but be yourself! I love you!" Bullshit.
Reminded that “socialization” theory, or whichever name you want to call it by, is the way the modern feminist movement managed to argue (for the first time in human history) that the oppression of women was not rooted in nature but in nurture in a misogynisitic culture.
Like I cannot stress enough how being asked to drop the idea that being assigned and raised female socializes you in a certain way is not just to ask people to close an eye and say a small white lie in order to spare people’s feelings, it is to drop a bomb that has the power to undo all of feminism on a molecular level.
The US is detransitioning prisoners and just announced that ICE can detain trans people on suspicion of visa fraud. The UK just banned all care for trans kids and is now conducting an "evidence review" into HRT for trans adults and now the biggest DIY HRT web resource just went down.
Trans people need to learn solidarity yesterday, we need to be ready to organise together and set aside anything that we need to in order to get our shit sorted out. Cis people need to take it seriously that the fascists are trying to completely extinguish transess from existence
Crazy thing to say when it was immigrant trans men & masculine queer people perceived female who were the targets of a forced labor program and sexual violence in ICE detention.
At the South Louisiana Ice Processing Center in Basile, detainees say they were forced into hard labor – and sexually assaulted and stalked
Three current and former detainees who spoke to the Guardian said that, between 2023 and 2025, they endured months of abuse from an assistant warden named Manuel Reyes and his associates. In their complaints to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), the detainees also said that they faced retaliation for reporting the abuse to authorities, alleging that Reyes and other staff beat them and denied them medical treatment.
“I was treated worse than an animal,” said Mario Garcia-Valenzuela, one of the detainees. “We don’t deserve to be treated like this.”
Garcia-Valenzuela, a trans man detained at SLIPC, has alleged that, as part of the unsanctioned work program, Reyes forced him to move heavy cabinets and cinder blocks, and to clean using industrial-strength chemicals without gloves or protective gear. When Garcia-Valenzuela complained of injuries from the work program, he said, Reyes and his associates forcefully stripped him naked and mocked him.
Kenia Campos-Flores, who is trans and non-binary, told the Guardian that they suffered from persistent migraines and chest pain after exposure to cleaning chemicals they were made to use during unofficial, overnight work shifts. Campos-Flores also alleged in a complaint they were persistently sexually harassed by Reyes, who entered their dorm and stole possessions including their boxers.
Another trans detainee, Monica Renteria-Gonzalez, complained that a stripper chemical he was told to use to clean the facility floors seeped through his fabric shoes and burned the skin of his feet. On more than one occasion, while Renteria-Gonzalez was bent over cleaning, he said, Reyes came up from behind and inappropriately touched him. The assistant warden also told Renteria-Gonzalez he was watching the detainee through security cameras, including while he was showering.
A fourth detainee, identified by the pseudonym Jane Doe, is a cisgender, queer woman who said that Reyes forced her to perform oral sex on him on a “near daily basis” between February and May 2024, threatening to kill her if she refused, according to her complaint. [...]
“This was a sadistic late-night work program,” said Sarah Decker, a senior staff attorney with RFK Human Rights. “It was designed to target vulnerable trans men or masculine-presenting LGBTQ people, who [Reyes] coerced into participating.” [...]
Garcia-Valenzuela had fled to the US in 2014 from Mexico, where he was tortured by members of a drug cartel. “I have no choice, that’s why I’m fighting,” he said. “Because I know that as soon as they deport me, I’m going to be handed over to the cartels and I’m going to be tortured and killed – ripped into pieces.”
But in SLIPC he faced a new kind of horror. He alleged that on more than one occasion he was told to move heavy metal filing cabinets back and forth across a room. When he struggled to lift the furniture, Reyes would taunt him, he said, saying: “If you think you are a man, I’m going to treat you like a man.”
And no one in the community seems to be interested in bringing it the fuck up. Even a post which starts off by talking about forced detransitioning under ICE! You'd think this would be the perfect example of this kind of violence in action, but for some reason people don't seem to think these people make good enough victims for the cause. Why is that?
At a time where reproductive rights are also being drained away, where there is very clear targeting of people's ability to control if they are pregnant, is it really so much to ask that we don't start talking about trans men's ability to "financially and socially defend themselves" as if that means jack shit to the brown undocumented trans men being used as slaves and sexually assaulted by federal employees specifically because they are trans men.
"Focus their energies on protecting the most vulnerable" the majority of people I see who talk about reproductive justice forget trans men. The majority of people I see talk about 99% of social issues forget trans men, much less nonbinary people in general. When exactly are we allowed to focus our energies a population that has a 51% lifetime rate of sexual assault across races, and which goes up to 71% for Native trans men? A population that, no matter what study you look at, is paid less than cis women (also see here)?
"Relatively privileged"? Are you fucking kidding me? Do you have any idea how insanely hurtful and straight up misinformative that is to say, in these circumstances?
The callousness this shows towards trans men is just unconscionable, and is highly suggestive of a lack of knowledge about the violence trans men face as well as a lack of openness to questioning ingrained ideas about transmasculine people. I don't mean this as an attack but this is a very clear example of how people internalize transmasculine erasure and repeat it uncritically as fact. We cannot tolerate this rhetoric. I'd like to once again highlight this HRW report, specifically the section “"Butches Get Punched”: Violence Against Masculine-Presenting LBQ+ People” in “This Is Why We Become Activists”:
"Unless they present hyperfeminine, butches don’t have access to the job market. You will not be considered if you don’t wear nice women’s clothes. If you set up catering, you will get told, “I am disgusted; a woman who thinks she’s a man is cooking for me.” So butch lesbians normally have an assistant, or their femme partner if they have one, who is more feminine-looking to run the front so customers don’t know a masculine-presenting person is cooking behind the curtains. Many of us become sex workers [due to lack of job opportunities].… But then when police raid brothels and homes, the masculine lesbians get treated “like men.” This means more forceful handcuffing, kneeling, and stripping their shirts off."
– Rosa, lesbian and sex worker rights defender El Salvador
[...] While gender expression is thus less explicitly criminalized than sexual orientation—the same project reports 66 countries that criminalize same-sex relations between consenting adults —LBQ+ people interviewed for this report repeatedly named gendered discrimination against masculine gender expressions[238] in particular as the catalyst for a lifetime of economic marginalization, discrimination and harassment at work, psychological abuse, and physical and sexual violence.
Their accounts point to the need for deeper research and analysis of how masculine gender expression by LBQ+ people increases their risk of exposure to various human rights violations and abuses. Some reports on violence against LBQ+ people (explored below) have treated gender expression as a signifier of sexual orientation or gender identity, limiting knowledge production on how presentations of masculinity are themselves policed and violated.
This kind of attitude gets trans men is exactly what is described by this report as "limiting knowledge production on how presentations of masculinity are themselves policed and violated." It's just not right and its not remotely accurate. It can and does get trans men detransitioned and killed, and then those victims ignored and forgotten by the very people who claim to be acting purely out of a desire to focus on the most affected. The insistence that trans men don't need specific, focused attention and concern is exactly what creates the circumstances for their vulnerability!
If anyone wants to know more I'd recommend starting here and here.
Did you literally just acknowledge that you have a uterus and say that that affects you both personally and politically?? Did you seriously say that you experience misogyny in your daily life??? You are literally weaponizing your AGAB you stupid hysterical vaginabrained theyfab cunt!!!
“They’re going to put me in a camp for being trans!” 🚨WRONG🚨 You are a white American who is co-opting the kidnapping, torture, and murder of immigrants to further your victim complex. Get less racist or die.
“Lol yeah no trans person is getting targeted by ICE you’re being hysterical” 🚨WRONG🚨 Transgender immigrants are being horrifically mistreated in ICE custody. Get less racist or die.
(idk if this glitch is real/common, but if this isnt anon, please dont publish it, if you were going to)
"if you were observed perisex and observed male at birth, you *cant know* if you have endo until you get diagnosed, at which point you will also know that you are intersex. therefore, there is *no reason* for someone who is still understood by themselves and others to be perisex and was omab to be claiming they have endo. 'what about if they were intersex and didnt know it?' then they should confirm or deny that before talking out of their ass about the reality of endo."
this is a snippet from a post i made recently. i seriously dont get why people cant understand this (i dont get why people are pretending you ever said everyone knows theyre intersex or perisex from birth?). there is no reason for people undiagnosed with endo to be talking over people who are diagnosed with it. have your strong suspicions! do your own research and connect the dots, nobody can stop you, but you *cant know* unless you get diagnosed especially if its statistically extremely unlikely for you to have it.
why can we understand that faking serious shit like this is a bad thing up until its about a condition exclusive to uterine tissue?? why can we understand that pretending to be intersex is bad up until the intersex trait is endo? like if you were diagnosed with it just say so?
also its completely fucked that youre still getting harassed with rape threats and bots and tumblr has done nothing about it
Everyone conveniently leaving out the load bearing “perisex” in my original post is annoying as hell but hey if you want to have a victim complex far be it from me to interrupt. “What if someone doesn’t know they’re intersex” then they also wouldn’t claim to have endo? If you think you’re perisex and also think you have a condition that would require you to have an intersex condition to even get you’re just kind of dumb.
