It's annoying when transmedicalist rhetoric and bullying seems to draw far less ire than a trans man making the argument that we should be allowed to use the word "misandry"

anti-transmasculinity as a trojan horse for older gender-essentialist bullshit is a real thing

Alright y'all, lets start art thread for our trans masc and trans men siblings. I'll tag a few to start: @cairosteele.com @renegaderiot.guru @verdantsculpts.bsky.social Share your art and I'll boost! #transmen #transmasc #transisbeauitful

Not to fandom on main, but yaoi/BL/mm has a core constituency of transmascs and if you, in bad faith, assume "boys with girls hearts" who make sexual violence fantasy safe for "girl" readers in a heavily afab creative community is about trans women and not nascent trans men, you are missing the plot

as a bisexual nonbinary gender nonconforming transmasc, literally no one who is not an expert can conceptualize of my existence without being told directly, usually with several conversations and prerequisite theoretical understanding, and it is tiresome

transmascs, broadly, are absolutely existentially exhausted of being told what our life experiences "should" be based on others' assumptions, while spoken over and attacked constantly while trying to describe our actual lived experiences transmasc erasure is an active and ongoing social project

Anti-transmasculinity is real and it kills transmascs.

"'anti-transmasculinity' is okay but i hate 'transandrophobia' because nb mascs aren't MEN" OH MY GOD I AM GOING TO HAVE AN ANEURYSM

All I want is a transfeminist theory that accounts for the visible, overwhelming violence against trans women, the less-visible, often misgendering violence against trans men, and idk, maybe engage how intersexism and exorsexism have us pitting "opposite" gender/sex assignments against each other.

The lack of queer feminist analysis about the extreme amounts of violence being brought to bear to force transmascs into womanhood and accepting the conservative lie that they think We’re Innocent Girls and therefore aren’t demonizing and brutalizing trans men and mascs….

Yeah, it’s never because the trans community constantly minimizes and denies experiences of trans men, complete with accusing a transmasc of rape and deteansition for the horrific crime of coining the word “transandrophobia“

If a rush of troubled stories is the best way to tell about contaminated diversity, then it’s time to make that rush part of our knowledge practices. (6/6) — Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 633

Without algorithms based on self-containment, scholars and policymakers might have to learn something about the cultural and natural histories at stake. That takes time, and too much time, perhaps, for those who dream of grasping the whole in an equation. But who put them in charge? (5/6)

Without self-contained units, it is impossible to compute costs and benefits, or functionality, to any “one” involved. No self-contained individuals or groups assure their self-interests oblivious to the encounter. (4/6)

One reason is that contaminated diversity is complicated, often ugly, and humbling. […] Worse yet, contaminated diversity is recalcitrant to the kind of “summing up” that has become the hallmark of modern knowledge. (2/6)

Contaminated diversity is everywhere. If such stories are so widespread and so well known, the question becomes: Why don’t we use these stories in how we know the world? (1/6) — Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 633

I feel like there’s a whole taxonomy of radfems to be written based on their relationship to trans genders

Going to say this again (and again and again)-- intersections alter the form of violence. If you judge anti-transmasc violence and rhetoric by the specific form of violence and rhetoric targeting transfems, it's not going to reach the same benchmarks. Anti-transmasculinity looks different.

I suspect the "TMA/TME" dichotomic framework wouldn't be happening, or at least would look unrecognizable, if there wasn't intersexism in the trans community, and y'all understood sex more clearly as a construct of constellations of traits, and also if ur lazy asses didn't hate intersectionality sm.

Definitely. There’s a broad refusal to perceive how anti-masculinity/misandry can and have been used in feminist theory to describe how patriarchy is structured by demonizing certain types of men for their manhood. @sotreu.blacksky.app and other Black transfeminists have pointed out

The ratio of hormones in your body is independent of whatever identities modern human society has labeled you as. The cells in your body only care about the hormones in your body. What human society names things & the ideas in other people's minds have no effect on the genes expressed by your DNA.

You don't need to be trans to take HRT! You don't need to be cis to take HRT! You don't need HRT to be cis! You don't need HRT to be trans!

Something almost everyone has gotten backwards is that the diagnosis of "transsexual" was *invented* for the purpose of justifying medical treatment under the axiom that you can't give medicine to a healthy person. It was a means to an end. The only purpose for "being trans" was to get HRT/SRS/etc

"Every instance of severe traumatic psychological injury is a standing challenge to the rightness of the social order." Judith Herman, 1990 Harvard Trauma Conference

I go on it and off it with regularity and the Adderall and Effexor have way more of an impact. It is not a scary drug, you guys are just buying into the idea of it as Scary Violent Man Juice

Like I see people going "hurr durr gender affirming care" but this is very likely going to end up harming trans men who actually need testosterone. Just like bathroom bans, no one cares about the actual consequences for trans men, just their fantasy.

you looking directly at the moob meat of your paramour with adventure in your soul! a real Lover!!!!!!!!!!

The vulnerability both of you shared... one might call "Tender" ... you suckled the soft animal of his body

Gender-affirming care for America's empire maintenance.

16th Century Beijing had a Down With Cis bus too, huh?

I am a sucker for a good booklist

/stares blankly at the trans community

reality. The character demanded of the "merely gender nonconforming woman" is the knight in shining armor Britomart, who rescues Amoret and reveals herself to be a woman and therefore needs nothing from Amoret in exchange for the rescue, while a trans man, a *man*, would need recompense.

Just like cis people coopt the IDEA of nonbinary people to pressure binary trans folx not to transition, or the IDEA of non-medically transitioning trans folx to pressure trans folx seeking medical transition. It’s never really about anyone getting bodily autonomy, it’s using one group as a cudgel.

So there's this thing called "confirmation bias"...

So many of our current ideas about sex, sexuality, and gender have roots in white cishet supremacist sexology of the 19th and early 20th c constructing categories of deviance. I fear we continue to follow in Havelock Ellis’ steps in trying to make solid definitions out of interiority and quicksand

if we agree that cis women can grow beards without affecting their womanhood (you agree), a trans woman who loves her luscious beard is likewise no less a woman. Thank you for your time.

Sex is multiple systems. Gender is multiple systems. All of those systems are inherently overlapping. I'm beginning to decohere.

"Sexogender" is a dumb word but at least it kind of describes the combination of social, physical, and internal traits instead of trying to assign importance to physical or social systems independently

Unless it's paired with robust explanations that "sex" is a made up idea that consists of dozens of interrelated systems that sometimes occur together, í don't want it Bodily autonomy is a right. Sex doesn't exist.

"Every instance of severe traumatic psychological injury is a standing challenge to the rightness of the social order." Judith Herman, 1990 Harvard Trauma Conference

Whenever i see transmascs referred to as ’MRAs’ for discourse about anti-transmasculinity my first thought is always “so you don’t believe trans rights are human rights, got it”

not to Benjamin Franklin-kin on main but it’s time to choose whether we hang together or hang separately

By the patriarchy's values, if you step out of line of your assigned role, you will be sexually assaulted, slaughtered, or both. End of story. "We are all faggots in the eye of the state."

U dont care about trans men or transmasc people if u position constant predatory efforts of terfs to indoctrinate + radicalize them into detransition n bigotry that will alienate them from safe support n minimize chances of defecting as a privilege n not a cruel systemic barrier to trans life

The "silence" of transmasc erasure is the silence of the grave.

People believe so deeply that there is something innately rotten in masculinity so that if a cis woman is a powerful and hateful biggot, she must secretly actually be a trans man.

The question you should be asking is why you believe this is representative of transmasculine thinking, and why transmasculinity constantly being framed as the trans person having the power, instead of the cis.

The problem here, is that everyone falls for it, because deep down, even trans people, even trans men, really do believe the lie that transmasculinity is caused by misogyny.

i swear people do this all the time where it's like "here is my proof that trans men don't face real transphobia" and then show me real transphobia