It really is crazy the way anybody ever managed to push the idea that there is a real, tangible "transmasc erasure". If you look up books, comics, movies, plays, etc. starring a trans protagonist pretty much every single time they are going to be trans masc or TME nonbinary. You have some notable exceptions like Nevada, or Detransition Baby, but pretty much every one of those is going to be BY a transfem author telling our own stories. But they will swear that transmascs are being erased in media compared to trans women so you will go through a list of the top 50 trans books and top 10 trans films for pride and the top 8 queer comic lists and they will pretty much all be about a transmasc experience and you will be like. okay so I reviewed 60 pieces of media and 5 of them were interested in representing trans women and the rest were transmasc or TME nb what do you mean by erasure and they will look you in the eye and say with a full chest "I am jealous that you guys get more blood libel than us"
watching cowboy bebop for the first time. 90s anime with non-binary hacker character Ed that (as I've seen so far) never is subject to transphobia or anything, just treated as "genderless hacker gremlin". Almost 3 decades old show. imagine being a tme trans kid and getting to see yourself in an anime as a character who simply exists as they are and isn't constantly the butt of transphobic jokes.
now imagine you're a tma trans kid watching the same show, where in a later episode Spike meets three "crossdressing prostitutes" who are extremely caricaturized, transmysogenistic characters that just exist to be the punchline of "Spike was looking for a Julianna and someone said "yeah she hangs out over there" but what if instead of the woman he's looking for, from the back it looks like her but they turn around and it's a man in a wig with lipstick and stubble talking stereotypically and soliciting Spike for sex!" that's the rep you get as a tma.
When Dragon Age Inquisition came out, I felt like I was going insane because there were all these posts talking about how great Krem is for trans visibility and how it was so cool that you had a trans character in this series.
And I was thinking back to the trans women sex workers in the Pearl, way back in DAO.
(It’s obviously not visible in the screenshots, but these characters have male voice actors with a female body mesh)
