First of all, I very specifically don't use they/them pronouns so don't misgender me thanks.
Why are you bring up cisgender men when I am talking about transgender men? I said this in the replies but why must you transphobes always go "but what about cis men???? Do you think cis men [xyz that I said about trans men]???" Like you must know how disgustingly transphobic & cissexist it is to constantly bring up and compare trans men to cis men when we're talking about trans men's experiences, right? Because it's so fucking obvious you bigots see trans manhood as an inauthentic poor imitation of cis manhood, rather than a unique and authentic, very real, manhood on its own that exists outside of cispatriarchal ideals of what it means to be a man and is therefore treated differently by cis patriarchy.
I've read Crenshaw multiple times. It seems like you haven't, or by "reading" you mean looking at words and not actually thinking about the meaning of those words strung together.
Because there is no reality in which transgender men are treated as nebulously "transgender" without an actual gender modifier changing that. The modality through which trans men are transgender is their gender identity as men.
Person identifies as a man > being a man is different to their socially imposed gender > because they are man that means they are trans > becsuse they are a man that is trans they experience oppression for their transGENDER identity > simplified, they are oppressed for their gender identity because that is what makes them trans, and thus open to oppression.
Nowhere am I saying "all man are oppressed for being men". I am saying "every transGENDER person is oppressed because of their GENDER identity, including trans men".
"Trans men are oppressed for being men", "trans men are oppressed for being trans", and "trans men are oppressed for being trans men" all mean the same thing.
I wrote this post because I'm sick of seeing anti-intersectional bullshit separating our gender from our troubles as trans, when the reason we are even trans is because we are men and those two things are inseparable parts of our identity. Bigots don't look at me and go "well you're trans so I hate you, but you being a man is fine". It is the very act of transitioning toward manhood that makes me open to transphobia and bigotry and oppression. The very fact of me being a man is very specifically what they hate about me.
There's a link to a masterpost of resources in my pinned. I suggest you go through and read all of that thoroughly, and stop talking over trans men about our experiences.
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