I just saw someone say that trans men (even if they are closeted or non-passing) are free from the oppressive systems that affect women and I'm going to put my head through a wall. Just right through it.
Like, I saw this and shit like this constantly in 2012 - 2014 tumblr. Trans men don't ever face misogyny even if they don't pass or are closeted (even before they know they're trans men!) Trans men have access to male privilege, even if they don't pass or are closeted! It didn't make sense then (like, I went along with it for years because it was the 'right' form of activism or whatever but even then it didn't fucking make sense to me) and it doesn't make sense now. Like, it falls apart under the slightest bit of thinking and it falls apart even further if you bother to actually ask transmascs and trans men their experiences. I don't understand how people still falling for this loony toons logic.
"If you suggest that trans men/transmascs experience misogyny and do not experience male privilege, that's the same as saying that trans women/transfems don't experience misogyny and do experience male privilege." No, it absolutely isn't, and this is such an absolutely bizarre and simplistic way of looking at it.
We're all completely fucked under the cisheteropatriarchy. None of us are afforded the privilege cis men are afforded and most if not all of us experience some form of misogyny at least at some point in our lives.
"Okay, but trans men who pass and are stealth have equal privilege to cis men!" I thought we agreed that passing privilege (which, let's call it what it really is... conditional acceptance) was bullshit back when people were suggesting that bi people in different gender relationships and aces/aros had straight passing privilege. Either you think passing privilege is a thing among queer people or you don't, pick one.
The absolute united front and solidarity we could have if people just acknowledged that none of us have access to the privilege of cis men and all of us are targeted by misogyny at some point and/or on some level, but god forbid.
