"Sources or I'll think you're a liar" you showed up accusing me of transmisogynist blood libel for saying that a global south trans man got doxxed for talking about his experience with trafficking 🤷🏽‍♂️

i feel like just always assuming that trans people no matter what have some relationship with misogyny and no one is new to it would be a good place to start

I am going to make everyone mad but I don’t think Platner appeals to the left, libs, centrists or whoever else is your enemy on here. I think he appeals to people based on aesthetics rather than politics. Once again it’s gender.

Women, even trans women, can be perpetrators of misogynist and transphobic violence on men, and squashing discussions of when and how that happens is not safe, healthy or liberatory

i leave it to my readers to draw a conclusion as to why these women are jumping from "global north trans women doxxed a global south trans man for discussing being trafficked by a trans woman" to "transbeef thinks there's massive ring in the global south of trans women trafficking trans men for sex"

"Why don't you just admit that you're my eternal enemy so I can hate you better?" Everyone constantly demands of transmasculinity.

I know this is a deviation but it makes me think of how historically, Black men are whatever white society need us to be in order to be scapegoats. The slave was both too dumb to be free but also ever wily. The Black man is referred to as Boy but he is also a (sexual) threat. The list goes on.

The always invisible and nonexistent Black trans man/masc 🤪

My goals honestly.

We all owe each other solidarity, yet when discourse repeatedly asks transmasculine people to pause that analysis to reassure others that they are not the oppressor, the conversation gets recentered around transmasculine accountability instead of the structures producing anti-trans violence

I need my adderall so I can actually do productive work instead of.... this

I know I point this out a lot, but a lot of trans women simply don't believe transmasculine people who are not men or who experience manhood differently from cis men exist

so many accusations of trans men lacking solidarity, meanwhile we're begging people to pay attention to two trans men being murdered in as many months and to acknowledge we have unique intersections of oppression

this is present everywhere. everything is Problematic (tm) to somebody no matter how innocuous, and everything is virtuous to somebody no matter how perverse. this is not an ecosystem that can produce a viable sexual conservatism, just bizarre drama

the result is that puriteens are as vicious to each other as us libertines because none of them agree on what constitutes virtuous sex and what constitutes sinful sex. to a certain brand of lesbian, girl/girl action has taken the moral implication typically held by the missionary position

I didn't live in the Bay very long before it became obvious how precarious housing could be, and how hostile the system can be when you're trying to get back. I try to help. At the Crossroads supports homeless youth in San Francisco, and I'm fundraising for 'em: secure.givelively.org/teams/at-the...

y'all know there are trans-inclusive feminisms that are not trans radical feminism right

Cisheteromasculinity does not exist separate from transmisogyny (and misogyny, homophobia, &cetera), it is constructed BY them. To argue that manhood as a category is not ordered by gendered violence, naturalizes the idea of manhood as a neutral category rather than a constructed one

It sure is! We deserve better transfeminism that doesn't ignore the issues of men and nonbinary people! Feminism is for everyone! Read bell hooks!

i am also Jewish, and if I say someone call any goyische person "antisemitism exempt" I would tell them they're a fuckwit and that antisemitism affects everyone. Jews are /targeted/ but it is inherently anti-intersectional to ignore how it combines and impacts others

This. Especially ironic given how much of this 'tma/tme' language has been weaponised against transfeminine people who aren't "sufficiently woman enough" / "don't pass well enough" / "aren't putting enough effort into being trans enough" etc...

love to be accused of "degendering" trans women for accurately describing the targets of transmisogyny as "transfem" Reminds me of the trans guys who get upset at being described as transmasc because ~I'm not masc, I'm a man~. You exist as part of an interconnected community, my countryfolk.

Mostly I just like the tautology of "TME exists because you protest being called TME" Do you think op has read Whipping Girl, and if so how much did she retain? Because Serano's been pretty clear about the fact that anyone perceived as transfeminized is subject to transmisogyny

Radfems are boring, cis or trans go read bell hooks and get some better praxis damn

There is a very bad tendency by people who do gender analysis to understand that it is falsely binary, but fail to see how it functions to hold men separate and apart from marginalization=womanhood.

[transphobia (anti transmasculinity)] There's a common argument that we fetishize gay relationships and think we're men because of fandoms I especially find heinous because often times it's the only safe way for trans masc people to explore their gender and sexuality. The other choice[...]

a rhetorical trick ive noticed-- transmisogyny is a broad organizational intersection when it comes to explaining why it is a word but antitransmasculinity isn't an equivalent, but its the experience of only transfemmes when it comes to refusing transmascs access to it as a principle affecting them

"Men are affected by misogyny" was a well-established feminist maxim outside of radfeminism for decades and it is actually kind of disgusting how shit like tma/tme language has degraded that and bolstered oppositional sexism within popular trans discourse

Me: Cis men can be affected by transmisogyny because that's how society keeps cis men in line, so obviously trans men can be affected by transmisogyny Some fucking freak:

This is because many transmascs have lived our lives in the double bind where any good action of ours is claimed by lesbians who erase our gender idenities in their rush to claim us, and simultaneously every bad action is attributed to our gender and used to smear our masculinity, transness, and GNC

No one is "exempt" from the organizing principles of cisheteropatriarchy and it's silly to pretend otherwise we don't use "misogyny exempt" for men or "racism exempt" for white people because of the obvious fact that bigotries affect people who are not the primary targets

I understand the issue tma/tme was intended to describe (the unique violence transfemmes face in many queer communities) but the choice to name it that has done irreparable damage to our understanding of transmisogyny as a cultural force which is used flexibly to construct white cisheterosupremacy

not even cis men are exempt from transmisogyny so no

A lot of transmascs, myself included, have a very complex relationship with sapphic identities, especially lesbian identities. 🧵

when i talk aboutr the regime of sex, gender and sexual difference as an epistemology, i am referring to a historical system […] that make it possible for a society to decide what is true and to distinguish it from what is false, and,... (1/2) — Paul B. Preciado, Can the Monster Speak?, p. 29

This post is not for cis people to comment on unless they have completed all Trans Theory 400 level classes

FTM not because of gender dysphoria, not because of gender euphoria, but a secret third thing (knowing I would be better at being a man than 99% of cis men)

I need feminism to do a better job of including trans mascs in their politics, because cis men sure as hell aren't stepping up for us. Feminism is our only hope. We are too small a minority to do much on our own.

As always, I have a book for this www.wiley.com/en-us/shop/g...

striking that none of the major trans news writers have posted much about the two trans men dead in as many months, btw i don’t begrudge a young dead trans woman the attention but the disparity with other recent trans murders is. interesting

trans guys who refuse solidarity and shared experiences with butches and masculine women are cismasculine chauvinists. it doesn’t make you less of a man to recognize that you share aspects of your oppression with masculine people who are not cis men

Already seeing people misgender him because they assume he is a trans woman. Transmascs face so much violence, too. And erasure of that violence, along with us.

late to trans discourse du jour but: I don't think there are arguments against lolicon that wouldn't also imply bdsm and ravishment-enjoyers want to abuse and rape people and/or are normalizing abuse Pedophilia arguments are generally the thin edge of a wedge when wielded against consenting adults

i have always thought that my early interest in sissy hypno aimed at cis dudes was a good indication that i wasn’t much of a woman in the first place

Cismasculinity defines itself as being natural and nonperformative Halberstam quote on hand: "The anxiety that performance anxiety acts out, then, is not, as one might think, an anxiety about doing; it is a neurotic fear of exposing the theatricality of masculinity." (Female Masculinity, p235)