transmasculinity

a transmasc blog for transandrophobia dicussion

[transmasc-armory]

"knights unite!"

this blog is for transmascs and discussion of transandrophobia.

very occasional coining and term reblogging as well.

icon is the knight transmasc flag

Mods:

-> the pantheon's company / Spirit , Cameryn , Pantheon / all prns

#knight apollo - he/blue/flame

#knight lokne - all pronouns

#knight sparrow - they/them

#knight kasey - they/them

#knight lyric - they/neos

please dni if:

pro endos, radqueer, trans id, proship, transandrophobia deniers, narc abuse believers, and your basic dni content.

to be updated.

[transguyarchive]

Trans Guy Archive masterpost!

Are you a trans guy? Have you ever been frustrated by the apparent lack of historical representation for people like you? The Trans Guy Archive (TGA) is (so far) the only historical and cultural database focusing on historical transmasculinity.

Researching history - when you're not trained in it - can be very difficult and overwhelming. The main goal of the TGA is to make history accessible, both visually and academically. We do our best to shy away from "overly pretentious" elitist language and turns of phrase so anyone can follow along.

What can you find on the TGA?

Historical profiles!

Our head researcher spends a lot of time reading about notable trans guys like Lou Sullivan and Reed Erickson and writing a digestible synopsis of their lives and achievements. Semi or fully complete biographies are being added every month.

Books, movies, magazines, and other materials!

We've been scouring the internet and physical libraries for academic and biographical works with central themes of transmasculinity to add to the archive! All of them are either free to read, low in cost, or will be made free to access in the future.

Photographic evidence that we've always existed!

While photography is a relatively new medium, there's a serious lack of trans guys from the visual record! We've got photographs of old trans marches, top *and* bottom surgery, HRT injections, fashion collages, and more!

Guides and tips for your transition!

Especially when your egg is freshly cracked, it can be a bit overwhelming trying to find quality info on everything from fashion to hormones to legal paperwork. We're adding new info on ways to help you achieve the Real You all the time.

Read our first monthly zine for December '25!

Want to submit writing/photos to the TGA?

Fashion tips for trans guys (more on HRT, makeup, etc. to come)

Check out our events calendar! Submit if you're able!

If you'd like to support the research the Trans Guy Archive does, feel free to throw us a dollar or two either on P@yP@1 or V3nm0.

Our DMs are always open. Feel free to message us with research/history questions any time! You can also contact us via the archive.

[this-is-transandrophobia]

being a gay trans man and wanting to see queer romance involving trans men is just being blasted in the face with t4cis smut where a the trans guy bottoms for a solid hour and then giving up. at this point I'm starting to think a large number of people haven't gotten the memo that we aren't just a porn trope.

This is transandrophobia.

[transsexula]

Ever since I learned in school about the types of discussions had after desegregation became commonplace. Its been in the back of my mind how people will use "women's safety" and "children's safety" as a reason to commit violence.

This is so incredibly common, you can see it in every political movement:

- desegregation. Men of color were treated as predators out to get women and children. Women of color deemed a threat to 'the good hwhite women and children'.

- gay liberation. Gay men were "out to get your sons" and gay women were "satan reaching out to your wife"

Now, with transgender liberation being a big talking point, we have trans men being painted as either "predator out to trans your daughter" or "confused little autistic woman girl we need to protect from herself!" And trans women get the "dangerous predator in the women's toilets watching ur wife piss and texting ur son telling him to wear a skirt" treatment.

Again, the urge for even 'feminists' to lean back on "what about women's safety?" Or "you're a man you dont get a say in this!" Or "but what about the children?" Isn't a good urge to have.

Protecting people is noble and a good cause. Using the protection of people to shut down a minorities conversation about their oppression, or using it to attack them, though? That's different.

[genderkoolaid]

During the AIDS crisis, bisexual men were also demonized for supposedly infecting good, normal straight women with HIV they got from having sex with gay men.

[brainscrems]

We have, “Jews are murdering Christian children as blood sacrifice” propaganda going back to 12th century England too. “Protect the children” is an old, old, weapon to fuel bigotry. If someone is arguing that you must treat whole classes of people differently because they’re a threat to your children, turn and run the other way. It’s never going to be true. Your commitment to human rights must be stronger than your fear.

[this-is-transandrophobia]

When I tried to come out to my mom as a trans man (I was about 14-15) she immediately started pointing out all the feminine things I liked, how it was “late” for me to be realizing this (she said “that’s something you know when you’re, like, a baby”), and she even asked me if I “really wanted” male genitalia. She even tried to point out my attraction to men as “proof” I’m a cis girl.

This is transandrophobia.

[this-is-transandrophobia]

I hate hate HATE whenever people make mpreg jokes like “I wish men could get pregnant” and eventually someone comes along and says “well technically yes plenty of trans men have gotten pregnant and had children” and people go “you know that’s not what we meant”.

Why don’t trans men count??? Why don’t we get to be men???

Same goes for all those “if men got periods blah blah blah” “if men had uteruses blah blah blah” posts. it only emphasizes that cis men are the default and trans men are “other”.

This is transandrophobia.

[crippled-peeper]

you can be a trans man any way you want btw

[crippled-peeper]

dudes rock

[crippled-peeper]

I can’t believe people are choosing now of all times to fear monger about binders. “I’m concerned about ribcages 🥺” Oh wow really? crazy. I’m concerned about the 15 year olds that are gonna kill themselves over the government harshly regulating what they do with their own bodies. you can worry about ribcages though , if that makes you feel better

[recoveringwfeminism]

If you kill yourself over not having access to fabric that could break their ribs and cause chronic back pain and breathing issues, EVEN IF SIZED UO, I really think you would have needed further therapy. This is exactly why higher levels of care exist, as problematic as they can be.

[crippled-peeper]

1. There is no evidence to suggest safe binding caused back problems or lung problems. You are either misinformed or fully lying.

2. Imagine calling yourself a “radical feminist” but advocating for the forced institutionalization of teen and girls who do not comply with you.

3. Do you know how much sexual violence happens inside of a hospital? How much abuse and inhumane treatment? Physically disabled people and black people are routinely executed inside US psychiatric institutions by the police and private security. Tell me - is that not worse than a compression garment?

You are an evil woman bound straight for hell and I hope so very much that you never have daughters.

[crippled-peeper]

trans people desperately trying to cleave traumas and life experiences into separate categories of “women’s problems” and “men’s problems” is stunning . you’d think we all would know better but apparently not

[4sh-4me-deactivated20260127]

most of the problems we (trans people) experience are collective experiences, traumas, and sufferings that we share due to our existence as a gender minority. unnecessarily gender delineation on the basis of “who suffers more/in a particular way” just serves to divide us.

that said, trans women, on the basis of them being both members of a marginalized queer identity and women, do experience a different and by far more significant form of discrimination from society at large. both of those things can be true.

[crippled-peeper]

I know you really wanted this post to be about TME/TMA terminology but it’s not. It’s about rape and sexual assault.

[deafandbewildered]

How is it *not* transphobic to compare being trans to having a mental illness btw

[jamjarblues]

“the word transandrophobia implies that cis men are oppressed for being men and also that trans women don’t suffer oppression” yeah buddy and the word mosquito implies the existence of a larger, more powerful insect named el mosco. do you have any other fantastic insights for us

[this-is-transandrophobia]

Thinking of how somebody told me that I must be hallucinating being transmasculine due to being delusional.

-🦖

This is transandrophobia and ableism.

[this-is-transandrophobia]

had a nurse think i was a cis guy. Until she looked at my med history and saw birth control and immediately switched demeanors and started being weird and condescending and misgendering me. and then i had to pull my shirt up for an ekg and she was looking at me with barely masked disgust and said "Not even a sports bra today?"

I am fifteen 🙃

This is transandrophobia.

[this-is-transandrophobia]

seeing a joke tweet about handing out hrt on halloween and the op says they have less T because "feminization is more important" i knowwwww it's a joke and I'm being annoying and the real reason is probably because the op was not a trans man and wouldn't have as much T laying around to take a picture with but was that really necessary. you didn't actually have to say anything you could have just left the joke at "I'm giving out hrt for halloween". I'm tired and i would love it if transmascs weren't just blatantly called unimportant in jokes from other trans people.

This is transandrophobia.

[this-is-transandrophobia]

screenshot from tik tok

said tik tok featured, Brook, a trans man (and said video had nothing to do with his identity)

then people started arguing over op’s gender identity, this was one of the responses

This is transandrophobia.

[transandrogyny--turtlebug]

being a woman isn't a feminist action btw

[transandrogyny--turtlebug]

being a lesbian isn't a feminist action either. It's just a thing

[badwolfdogbutch]

There is nothing inherently evil or wrong about how masculine or feminine you are and I wish people would stop acting like one is better than the other. The way you act and speak as a person says more about what kind of person you are than your gender presentation. There is plenty of people capable of being horrible people and there are plenty of people that are capable of being good people. It's a choice, gender has nothing to do with it.

[tboy-cock]

things trans men have to do/be to access male privilege:: be stealth, cis passing, lives in a blue state/supportive area where he can access healthcare, has had top and bottom surgery + hysto, binary, never tells anyone hes trans, doesnt interact with anyone who knows, even then there is always a possibility he will either be outed or be the victim of transphobic legislation that will affect trans people regardless of passing/stealth status and then that privilege is forfeit

list of things cis men have to do/be to access male privilege: continue being a cis man

see the point yet?