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they should invent an online ftm space that doesnt have this weird childish victim complex rivalry with transgender women

orangeskiss

this post has gotten a lot of attention and, unsurprisingly, its bringing in guys who are misinterpreting what i've said. i'm going to try and explain in a bit more specific detail. i'm not a political scientist nor am i particularly well spoken, so cut me some slack.

"why are you barging into trans men's spaces to bully them?"

i'm a trans man. i'm not anywhere i'm not already welcome.

"why are trans women allowed to have their own specific term for their oppression, but trans men aren't?"

in greater society, men are viewed as the default while women are viewed as the other. women are subjugated under a patriarchal society. this is the foundational concept of feminism, that women deserve equal treatment as men. society also views cis as the default and trans as the other.

trans women's experience differs from trans men in that they experience intersecting oppression, both as trans people and as women. the term "transmisogyny" was coined to describe exactly this.

trans men experience gender based oppression on the basis of being trans. the term to describe the oppression of trans men is transphobia. "transphobia toward trans men," if you want to really be specific. there is no way to create a word for that without directly implying cis men also face gender based oppression.

"i can't believe you'd say trans men aren't oppressed."

this is not what i said.

like i said, i'm a trans man. i grew up ostracized as a teenager for expressing gender in a way that wasn't "normal." i've had family members tell me, to my face, that they'd be happy if republican politicians stripped away my right to hormones and surgery. i've been denied jobs after telling hiring managers i am trans. i understand this intimately, i've dealt with it my entire life.

this is a semantics issue. guys are ascribing trans men's oppression to the term "transmisandry." and then, when people say transmisandry doesn't exist, that gets interpreted as "trans men do not face oppression" rather than the actual, intended point of "misandry does not exist because men are not oppressed on the basis of being men. therefore, trans men's oppression is based on being TRANS, not as men."

"trans men experience misogyny since they're afab. shouldn't they be allowed to use the term transmisogyny to describe that?"

trans men should be included in things like abortion rights and discussions of menstruation. we agree on that.

i'll try to draw a parallel. a common form of gay male homophobia is to say things like "anal sex is unnatural. men aren't supposed to have sex with each other because they both have penises." but some trans women have penises and have anal sex. should straight trans women be use the term homophobia to describe disdain towards the type of sex they have? the answer to that is: sort of.

misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, intersexism, and so on all exist in this big, ugly, interconnected ball. they all stem from the same idea: there is an ideal standard that all men and women should adhere to. any deviation from this norm should be met with social stigma and violence.

this is why the mainstream terf movement is closely tied pro-lifers and right wing pundits. when you define womanhood with a set of strict, natal rules, you also attract the type of asshole who is against women's liberation, against queer liberation, against intersex visibility.

anyways. another semantics issue. transmisogyny does not just means "transphobia + misogyny." it is specific to trans womanhood, which is why trans men should avoid using the term to describe their experiences.

"but cis men do experience gender based oppression! what about gender non-conforming men?"

see my above point regarding misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, and intersexism all being connected. if a man is experiencing oppression, its likely tied to one of these.

"you sound like a terf, op."

i am saying trans women experience misogyny because they are in the social class of women. this is the opposite of what terfs believe.

"we should kill op with hammers because he uses reddit."

yeah this ones fair actually

#THE TERM TO DESCRIBE THE OPPRESSION OF TRANS MEN IS TRANSPHOBIA!

#Came back just to put this here and leave again #Friendly reminder that I am a trans man don’t come at me #SO SICK of hearing this from fellow transmascs irl and online. Get your shit together guys #transmisogyny #transgender

redeyeyuna

Peek a Boo! ♥️

Juvenile brown long-eared bat

#oh my GOD boy why you so ears

astralsideburns

btw don't ever allow yourself to think it's a coincidence there are so few black users on tumblr or even that it's some sort of cultural mismatch. it's because black users were driven off the site by racist fanbases and staff witch hunts. don't forget about how when ferguson started trending, the tag was purged of all posts and users were deleted, which staff then justified by calling them russian bots and foreign agitators

koryos

KNOW YOUR BATS: Emballonuridae family

Emballonuridae is a family of bats commonly known as sheath-tailed or sac-winged bats. I’m surprised these bats aren’t better known, because they have very uniquely appealing little faces. I think it’s the perpetually upturned nose.

They also have a stunning variety of colors, from the pure-white northern ghost bat to the dark chocolate of the Hill’s sheath-tailed bat.

Among them are some excellent camoflaugers, such as the proboscis bat, which looks like a bit of lichen or damaged bark on a tree.

In fact, many species in Emballonuridae roost on the trunks and branches of trees, in broad daylight, depending on their camouflage to keep them safe. They like to do it in neat little lines.

Sometimes they also stack.

You may have noticed their short little tailed. They’re sometimes called sheath-tailed bats because these tails protrude out of the membrane between their back legs, which can be pulled up to “sheath” the tail. Here’s a video if you don’t quite understand what I mean.

As I mentioned earlier, they’re also called sac-winged bats. This is because they have special pouches near their wrists designed to release pheromones into the air when they flap their wings. Below is a close up of the pouch, closed and then opened.

For the most part these are very small bats, with weights as low as three to four grams- one of the smallest, the proboscis bat, can get caught in spiderwebs and eaten.

Aside from roosting in trees, these bats roost in caves, crevices, and occasionally, human-made structures like wells or stone tombs. Because of this, several species are known as tomb bats. They’re pretty adorable little harbingers of death if you ask me.

Photo credits:

Main set (species in photo caption): Bat Conservation Intl / Jasmine Vink / University of KwaZulu-Natal / Merlin Tuttle / Michael Penney

Emedded in text: Bateleur Nature Reserve / ARKive / Riley Pearce / PSUNHM / Christian Ziegler

ace-disgrace-on-the-case

You are not immune to getting caught up in the wave. You are not immune to your own internalized biases and bigotries. Yes, even if you nominally consider yourself a transfeminist, or antiracist.

ace-disgrace-on-the-case

@habbadax your tags deserve to be on this post

aropride

made on blinkies.cafe, text on the second blinkie from this post

batoryinthecastle

control C control V three times

#dark sheath-tailed bat!#gaze upon my stack and despair

noorah666-deactivated20251221

If you're trans and don't know what Hot Allostatic Loading a trans woman is, you should cuz it could happen to you. Read Hot Allostatic Load by Porpentine and understand that the seemingly ritual cancellation of trans women is by design and a sociological phenomenon. "Problematic trans woman" is a baton passed from one transfemme to the next as the witch eating the sins of the community that week/month/year.

nr1inreality

please also read black hot allostatic load by anonsee (storyweavingspider on tumblr)

sexchangedotcom

the internet is a place for reading wikipedia articles and watching every movie for free. social media is an invasive species. never forget this

xanaxfarts

Bats getting glamour shots

#btas

witchern

guillermo del toro said so many insightful and funny things last night at the frankenstein q&a that i started taking notes. these are all direct quotes. i love this man.