this place is best left shunned and uninhabited

this is striking how its disconnected from reality. you cant selectively bring up few parts of someone's identity and omit others when discussing oppresion. you are removing the context of why violence and micro/macro agression is happening.

:looks inside:

Trans men are asking to be included in discussions about abortion access, where they, transmascs, and enbies (particularly if they're racialised) are THE most vulnerable group.

Trans men from the global south are talking about their specific vulnerabilities and the horrific violence they face.

Trans men are asking the rest of the community to please care more about the fact that their hormones are a controlled drug and their identities are already on a controlled drug registry that can be very easily cross-referenced with agab to Pick Out The Trannies.

Trans men are talking about how TMOC have been targeted for sexual & physical harrassment because of their transmasculinitiy in detention centres.

Trans men are asking the queer community to stop claiming they have made 'no historical contributions' when 1) they have, and 2) they have been violently erased, institutionalised, and forced into marriage throughout history, and even those lucky few who went stealth were often discovered through forcible outing.

Trans men are begging the queer community to stop spreading transphobic lies that predatorjacket them as dangerous, violent rapists.

Trans men are mentioning that they are often ENTIRELY banned from playing on men's OR women's high-level sport teams, because those teams are allowed to 'make their own decisions' on whether to permit them while using a banned steroid, which usually, you guessed it, means they can't compete.

Anyway, the book brought up that historically there were two kings who, despite being AFAB, ruled and lived as men and were accepted as such. From what I understand, this isn’t common knowledge for trans history because both kingdoms were African, and while the people accepted the rulers as men, most of our records are from colonial powers who assumed they were both women who faked being men to gain more power.

Okay so this is why understanding the intersection of misogyny and transmasculinity is important, because this is how people talk about trans men on T:

Further distillation of the rhetoric I talked about in my posts about accountability issues in the trans community.

"She has kinks I don't like" get over it.

This part I actually completely agree with. If she's participating in consensual kinks with other adults, that's completely fine. I don't care what it is. Don't harass people over consensual kinks.

"she groomed kids" I don't believe you.

Here's where we get into the problems. Outright denial of any accusations, flat out. No consideration, no examination of evidence or listening to the alleged victims. Just denial.

"she was abusive to X" it doesn't concern you

Even if abuse occured, it simply doesn't concern you. As if other people can't be concerned about abuse taking place? As if victims of abuse don't have the right to speak up about their experiences?

"she told someone to kill themselves" I don't care.

Again, even if she actually did something harmful and there's proof, you're just not supposed to care. It doesn't matter. Someone bullying, harassing, and abusing others is no concern.

This is all abuser apologism and protectionism. We can talk about the harm that call-outs and spurious accusations do to people without immediately dismissing and downplaying all instances of actual harm.

The solution to intracommunity harm is not to immediately ignore all other instances of harmful behavior. In a community with little to no social safety nets, the only way we have to warn others of individuals committing abuse or harassment is word-of-mouth warnings.

you can make girly girl characters trans men & transmasc if you want ❤️

you can make masc girl characters trans men & transmasc if you want ❤️