It saddens me that a fair amount of people who insist transandrophobia is real think that when feminists denounce transandrophobia, we are saying that trans men never experience oppression ever. Of course you do; you experience bigotry on the level of being trans, and you experience misogyny when people deny your gender identity and use the patriarchy to harm you. You do not, however, experience transmisogyny on the level that trans women do, which is the intersection of bigotry against trans people and bigotry against women. Itâs not just âtransphobia but for girlsâ, itâs a conversation around how both transphobia and misogyny are heightened when aimed towards trans women. The key fact is that trans women occupy BOTH spheres. While trans men sometimes unfortunately face misogyny, they do not face transmisogyny.
The reason people push so hard against the concept of transandrophobia is because it fundamentally requires one to believe in misandry. For it to exist as a separate concept from regular transphobia, analogous to transmisogyny, you would have to experience oppression both on the axis of being transgender and being a man. You do not experience oppression BECAUSE you are a man. You may face transphobia and misogyny from people who deny that you are a man, and you still deserve to talk about these experiences! But when you insist that transandrophobia is the correct word to describe this oppression, because you think that trans men need their âownâ word for their oppression (the word transphobia already exists. hello), you are cheapening the conversation around transmisogyny. We donât need âtransphobia but for boysâ and if you think we do, you need to do some serious reading into transfeminism.
