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TW // sexual assault, rape, suicide, transphobia, trans death
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Another nonbinary/transmasc(?) death: Basil Brown (he/him) died by suicide this month after being sexually assaulted by multiple men, including a professor. The university of Lafayette Louisiana is covering it up.
TW // trans death, trans murder, transmisogyny, trans violence
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Another trans person is dead. This time, a homeless trans woman from Florida. Rest in Peace, Andrea.
I hate that the R slur is being brought back into popular usage even by other neurodivergent and queer people and I have to see it everywhere with no trigger warnings whatsoever fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you
I know we all want more historical/mythological trans representation but we can’t misgender intersex folk and steal their representation in order to do so. Hermaphroditus was an intersex man, not transsexual. Listen to intersex people. Don’t erase them.
I’ve started documenting instances of terfs, tirfs, and queer ppl being anti-transmasc toward trans men and transmasculine folk, since many people claim that trans men/transmascs don’t face unique challenges and “have it easier.”
Thread will be ongoing🧵
#AntiTransmasculinity
Things trans men are not allowed to do:
•say we experience misogyny
•acknowledge our pre-transition childhoods
•ask for solidarity with other trans folk
•call out anti-transmasculinity in (and out of) the queer community
•be wary of cis women
•take pride in being men
The phrase “trans men are men” aims to AFFIRM & VALIDATE trans men’s genders. It’s specifically POSITIVE. So what does it say about how you treat trans men if you only say “trans men are men” when one pisses you off? That you’ll only affirm our gender when you can hate us for it?
Trans women find it patronizing when cys people say “welcome to womanhood” in response to them experiencing misogyny right?
So why is it so hard for some of y’all to understand why we hate being told we “really are men” only in the most snarling, hateful of ways?
If you are a cys woman, you have privilege over trans men. Trans men are not your oppressors. Not on the basis of gender. Trans men do not have cys male privilege and do not hold the power to systematically oppress you for being women.
No group of queer people is exempt from being called out for excessive hatred of men and it’s part in queerphobia. Including lesbians. Gender essentialism is bad, actually. Radfem ideology is bad. It keeps trans men closeted, transfems alienated and is overall toxic to qlm.
Only cishet maleness/masculinity is rewarded. I need y’all to realize that. TRANSmasculinity is not rewarded. Any deviation from CISHET manhood/masculinity means you’re seen as less and less of a “true” man. Queerness is seen as gnc by default and the less proximity-
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Both transmisogny and anti-transmasculinity are rampant in trans spaces cause a lot of y’all don’t know how to call out other trans people for transphobic or generally shitty behavior without being equally transphobic in return lmfao
Trans men are helping reinvent masculinity and the concept of what it means to be a man, which in turn is helping make the world a better place. Trans men, I love you. Trans men, thank you. Everybody say thank you and I love you trans men.
Adding this to the never ending list of examples of anti-transmasculinity/transphobia specific to transmascs that other trans folk love to pretend doesn’t happen
Last thing I’m gonna say: He’s not “threatening suicide for not getting sex” but drawing attention to the fact that he was asked to leave a “trans friendly” space and declared “not actually trans.” That’s the takeaway. The denial of transness/marginalization, not rejection.
So this is the rhetoric we’re pushing now? That trans men are predators just trying to take advantage of lesbians? Gee, I’ve never heard that one before.
Some of y’all, despite what you claim, truly do view transness as a choice and view trans men as making the wrong choice and “betraying women” by “choosing to become men.” You may not say it out right or even consciously realize it, but it shows in how you treat us.
not being ciѕgender does not preclude you from being a chaser and there is something incredibly insidious about using your status as a TME queer person to enter trans safe spaces with the sole intention of getting laid
Literally one of the first things my mom said to me when I told her I was going on T was “I guess I just don’t understand why you’d want to be a man when men are so awful.”
But people try to claim we aren’t hated for “choosing to be the bad gender” and “betraying womanhood.”
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This is the guy who gets gender euphoria from defining his manhood as “having power and privilege over women” and claims transmasculinity can’t exist without it lmfaooo
Masculinity is beautiful. Transmasculinity is beautiful. Trans men are beautiful. Trans men/mascs deserve to take up space. Trans men/mascs deserve to be heard. Trans men are not inherently bad, privileged or oppressive for being men. Trans men help make the world a better place.
Y’all. Target literally took down pride displays because queerphobic asshats were protesting them. Fuck rainbow capitalism and corporations. Buy from queer artists.
@DelycanComics
Explain how a trans person wanting to date other trans people for safety and comfort reasons (aka the sole purpose of being t4t) makes him a “chaser” (aka someone who is only into trans people sexually and for fetishistic reasons)
Beginning to realize that my hesitancy to call myself a “man” has less to do with being nonbinary/man being a “heavier word” and more to do with the word being used in much more negative contexts within queer spaces than “guy” or “boy.” I can only handle so much seething hatred.
Y’all love making fun of AFAB nonbinary folk in relationships with people who don’t respect them instead of expressing concern or sympathy that they’re being coerced/abused/gaslighted. It’s lovely.
yes I'm non binary
yes I'm afab
yes I'm dating a cis man
yes he is blisteringly straight and has never used my correct pronouns when I'm not around
we exist
Idgaf what word we use to talk about anti-transmasculinity anymore tbh because no matter what, people will appear to tell us misandry doesn’t exist. I’ll make a mild af tweet about my negative experiences as a trans man w/o using a specific word and get “MISANDRY DOESN’T EXIST”
If a trans woman said something shitty, you wouldn’t want us to say “trans women really are women” as a mocking insult right? Or if we said “this is why I don’t trust trans women”? Why is it ok to say generalizing shit about us? We’re still marginalized even if some of us suck
oh my god the article in question literally recommends mildly degendering yourself to take advantage of trans women! the disgust at this kind of behavior also exists toward cis men! this is the worst hill to die on
Yalls obsession with trying to paint transmasculinity as inherently fascist is sick. You’re creating a cesspool of negativity that only gives our cys oppressors more fuel against us. Learn to love yourself and move the fuck on before it’s too late.
Yes actually it is literally transphobia to insult us specifically because we’re trans men, as if our gender in particular makes us particularly bad. This isn’t difficult to grasp, Willow.
It's not "anti-transmasculinity" to rightly point out that "trans men are men" also means that trans men are also sometimes men (derogatory). If you don't like that, get out there and talk to your boys! Do something about it instead of whining about it! 😒
I’m sorry but there’s no excuse for this. You cannot combat one trans man’s shitty behavior by being anti-transmasc towards trans men as a whole. Call out the behavior without tying it to our gender. Stop collectively demonizing all trans men. Y’all would hate if we did the same.
Much of intracommunity anti-transmasculinity is fueled by generalizing men/masculinity as inherently bad (due to the actions of cis men) and because of this, many non transmascs will treat trans men as “acceptable” punching bags for which to take out their anger towards cis men.
Can we go one day without some dumbass shit that makes everyone jump at the chance to generalize and demonize trans men as a whole?
“Trans men are the men of trans people”
Please stop malgendering. You can address the issues here without generalizing and being anti-transmasc.
@bitchvibrations
It’s not “womanhood” we claim as integral to our existence, we simply want to acknowledge the ways in which misogyny affects us pre and post transition, in part of because of the body parts we have. Talking about this does not mean we think trans women don’t also face misogyny.
Apparently since I’m gay trans man, so called “feminists” can say the absolute most vile things to/about me and excuse it as “feminism.” I guess being a man cancels out transphobia and queerphobia? I def feel safe being bullied for being trans/gay in the name of “feminism”👍
I can’t talk about transmasc issues without people being like “WHY DON’T YOU CARE ABOUT QUEER WOMENS ISSUES THIS MUCH??”
Um….why are you assuming I don’t just to derail my thread about a very specific issue and demonize me for bringing up a topic that makes you uncomfortable
Trans women are helping reinvent femininity and the concept of what it means to be a woman, which in turn is helping make the world a better place. Trans women, I love you. Trans women, thank you. Everybody say thank you and I love you trans women.
I often think of that video of the trans guy who said that transitioning made him feel at home enough in his body that he was finally comfortable with being pregnant and letting his body “become a home for someone else” and how beautiful that is.
Stop talking to trans men like we’re toddlers who don’t understand how patriachy works every time we express discomfort in having our transmasculinity treated as a threat. We’re affected by abortion laws. We’ve faced misogyny all our lives and still do post transition. Ffs.
This is absolutely true in my experience going from bi “cis” woman to bi enby trans guy. It took me over 2 decades to realize I’m transmasc and that my attraction to men is gay. I was shamed for liking men before and I’m shamed now, for liking them AND being one. It sucks.
A lot of queer people on this platform act like liking men is the worst thing ever (after being a man of course). If a queer person celebrates being a man and/or liking men to any degree it's seen as regressive. Being a woman and/or liking women is seen as progressive.
Some of y’all will grasp at every opportunity you can find to suggest that trans men are more likely to be dangerous/predatory/violent simply because we’re men and then have the nerve to mock us for “crying misandry” when we ask you to maybe not do that.
Unchecked hatred of men in queer spaces is a stepping stone to homophobia, anti-transmasculinity, transmisogyny. Every time we try to talk about how queer spaces are often hostile towards queer men/qlm (or those seen as men) people act as though we’re demonizing lesbians +
Idk if think you’re being progressive or some shit, but you’re not. You’re just dividing the community and reinforcing gender roles on all trans and nonbinary people. Nothing progressive about that. Snooze. Boring. Anyways.
ive never seen trans people defended the way i have seen ppl come to the defense for an amab person who actively and willingly performs all the markers of cis masculinity to claim a non-binary identity and i just think that is very telling.
Was at a hosp apt today, relating to my asthma.
Never mentioned I was trans. It wasn't relevant. But someone obviously had a good look through my file, because right in front of me, she handed over to a collegue:
"She's a bit tachy, her SpO2 was low, but she's had a nebuliser" 🙄
That you only see us as men when we piss you off? That you only see our masculinity as a bad thing? That you only view men & masculinity through the lens of cyshet manhood/masculinity and therefore scrutinize us far more and look down on us for “choosing to be men?”
Can never just refer to myself as a man, always have to include the word “trans” to try and remind people that I don’t experience cys male privilege but it doesn’t work cause ppl would rather let cys men remain the default and use us as punching bags to take their anger out on
Also- if you’re a cis queer woman, you have privilege and power over trans men on the basis of gender. Please don’t forget that. Trans men have no gender based privilege/power in the world.
People are seething and throwing tantrums in the replies at the mere reminder that trans men exist.
Sorry but you don’t get to tell us to shut up every time we remind you cys men aren’t the default just so you can pretend you’re the only marginalized person in the room.
Also, most of us DO recognize that hypervisibility is indeed not a privilege. We simply are trying to make people realize the same about hyper-erasure but are constantly told it’s a privilege. It’s so hypocritical.
And if I said I dislike/distrust most cys women just as much if not more so than cys men because my experiences with them have been just as bad if not worse?
Saying that our maleness is what makes us bad is quite literally suggesting we shouldn’t be men and that we can’t be good unless we hate that part of ourselves and allow others to hate it too. You can call out behavior w/o demonizing the gender we worked hard to be accepted as
using "malgendering" when the disgust this inspires is because of men, cis and trans, sexually targeting/using PUA methodology on trans women, is unbearably dishonest. nobody's saying "if you don't like it, stop being a man", it's "women have the right to be wary of men"
to call out the general demonization and and hostility towards queer men/qlm in queer spaces. Regardless of who it’s coming from, it’s not ok! There’s a difference between being wary of men and being a bully by erasing our struggles and treating our attraction/gender as icky.
in particular and well, if the shoe fits…..
Ofc it’s not only lesbians. Plenty of non lesbians also use their distrust of men as an excuse to be homophobic, queerphobic and anti-transmasc to queer men/qlm. But for some reason ppl seem to think it’s particularly lesbophobic +
And I wasn’t even coming out to her as a trans guy yet. Just as nonbinary/genderfluid and I was telling her I was gonna start microdosing T. It delayed me from realizing I was a trans MAN for nearly 2 years. 2/2
-you have to CISHET manhood the less male privilege you have. Again: Queer men, ESPECIALLY TRANS MEN, are seen as less “manly” by default on account of being queer/trans. And are punished for it. For trans men the “male privilege” can only ever be conditional and if we’re-
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Love having anti-transmasculinity dismissed and explained to me by non transmascs lmao
I knew people would find issue with the thread no matter how carefully I curated and worded it. Anyone can be anti-transmasc! Sorry! Even other trans folk aren’t exempt from being called out!
It has been 0 minutes since I was called a “men’s rights activist” by a white trans woman for trying to educate her on the unique issues that trans men face due to hyper-erasure.
@hysterekal00
@69420Communism1
It’s literally just because it’s become more common to use they/them if you don’t immediately know someone’s pronouns like it’s not that deep and she’s acting like she’s a trans person being purposely misgendered I’m gonna scream
stealth and essentially closeted. Do you realize how impossible that is for most of us? And how isolating? And even those who manage it still face medical misogyny and fear of being outed and may have to do background checks for jobs-do you get what I’m saying??? 3/3
Starting with a reminder of this infamous book. It claims we’re self hating women who need saving. This infantilization portrays those of us with uterus’s as property who can’t think for ourselves, keeping us from transitioning lest we “ruin our perfectly good wombs”.
I’ve started collecting all the antitransmasc tweets I see on here. No one’s gonna claim anymore that anti-transmasculinity isn’t a problem in the trans community.
Me talking about anti-transmasculinity contributes to twitter being a hellish wasteland of never ending discourse and I’m so sorry for that. I just want to to reach transmascs who feel isolated and hated and form community with people who care about people other than themselves.
Tbqh I don’t think anyone should be reclaiming the word. Not if it means normalizing it’s usage on social media and especially not if you don’t fucking know what reclaiming means. I don’t think a word that hasn’t been destigmatized in the first place can even BE reclaimed.
“If you can’t find other trans friends/ppl to date there’s something wrong with you or you’re not trying hard enough”
Sure. It’s not like being neurodivergent—a moderate support needs autistic and with a cluster B disorder—tends to make things just a bit fucking harder.
Kristen Stewart hasn’t come out as trans or nonbinary but is still vilified for showing the smallest ounce of masculinity, or perceived masculinity. Any hint of masculinity is punished and called ugly. People fear monger that she’s going to transition and “chop off her tits.”
Viral tweets objectifying us, calling us mentally ill or fear mongering about masculinity/transition. Notice that our transition to masculinity in particular is vilified. We are hated specifically for “running away from femininity.”
Y’all, this is about how the phrase “trans men sure are men” has been turned into a dogwhistle for anti-transmasculinity because it’s often used only in negatives contexts, whenever a trans man does something someone doesn’t like.
Trans people generalizing the experiences of trans men by implying we always live long, easy lives.
And blaming us for terfism from cis women because “they could be closeted trans men.”
Any trans person to use the term “theyfab” as an insult or make fun of nonbinary people “in cishet relationships” is getting automatically blocked. Y’all are literally mocking people’s abuse and deaths at this point. Have been this whole time, actually. Now it’s just making news.
I feel like some trans men confuse feeling more comfortable in their own skin post transition with “being treated better/gaining male privilege” and I think white trans men in particular confuse their white privilege with “trans male privilege.”
@69420Communism1
Fr. That’s why I hate tme/tma, because it divides people into “less oppressed” and “most oppressed” and completely erases other ways in which transphobic intersects with other forms of bigotry for various trans people. It’s so reductive.
“When women say this they’re not even thinking about trans men! They’re talking about patriarchy!”
So being forgotten entirely is supposed to be a good thing? Y’all don’t see how that may make men w/o those privileges and who are still affected by the patriarchy uncomfortable?
“If this doesn’t prove trans men are men I don’t know what does” has to be the worst of these cause what exactly do you fucking mean by that? That the only way we can “prove” we’re men is by being shitty?
@ozymegdias
You cannot compare cys men to trans men like this. Cys men do not face transphobia. Grouping trans men together as a group to be wary of and treating us as collectively predatory and creepy and ignoring the struggles we face AS TRANS PEOPLE is transphobic.