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maybe bc we are not allowed to create our own language around our own health? maybe bc every time we try we are ridiculed and attacked and called mysogynists bc someone said "pregnant ppl", "ppl who menstruate" or "ppl with uteruses"? maybe bc we are forced to refer to "women's health" every time we want to talk ab the healthcare we need for the literal organs inside our own bodies? maybe bc abortion rights and gynecologycal care are relegated as "women's issues" even if not all ppl who are part of the conversation are women and there are women who don't have those issues? maybe bc we actually are forced misgender ourselved irl to get an abortion, or birth control, or treat a UTI, or endo, or get a basic check-up? maybe bc trans men and mascs on T and/or with an M on their ID are refused these very necessary procedures? maybe bc male pregnancy is used as a punchline and a humiliation fetish?

so how ab u let go of the idea of a universal "women's issues" and u let the ppl actually affected talk ab it, whoever they are? and give us just as much respect and the space to talk that u give to cis women?

Misogyny permanently alters your life path.

There are binary trans men who pass today who still suffer from after-effects of fgm which a lot of the time cannot be cured.

There are binary trans men who pass today who do not have the basic education needed to advance in the modern world.

There are binary trans men who pass today who cannot walk/are permanently disabled by misogynistic practices in their youth.

There are binary trans men who pass today who will live in poverty forever because they were forced into marriages young

There are binary trans men who pass today who will never achieve their dreams because they were not allowed to play instruments or sport or early life skills that cannot be 'caught up' later in life

There are binary trans men who pass today who cannot have children because of reproductive violence

There are binary trans men who pass today who missed out on critical promotion years because they were forced to be wives/mothers

And this is not a #sadcore #never transition post, because all this stuff does not mean that you cannot live a happy and fufilling life, it does not mean that there isn't joy in transitioning or that the world is hopeless.

This idea that in order to be a happy man you must deny the role of misogyny in your life is such an insidious lie because it forces trans activists to either shove every single one of these men (plus all the ones who dont even pass/transition/know they're trans now) under the bus, or discourage young boys from transitioning.

Hint: Pretty much everyone chooses the 'lets throw these trans men under the bus and blot their brains out to the reality of transmasculinity' option.

Literally. Some of you heard this quote 'How many Einstein’s have spent their lives washing dishes, how many Mozart’s bent over stoves instead of pianos, because they had the misfortune of being born a woman?' and said: But the moment you find out you're a man it can all go away!

Anyway this is getting long and disjointed but my point is basically summed up with: misogyny permanently alters your life path and there is not such thing as 'graduating' from the affects of systematic oppression

I have met queer and trans people irl who held a lot of anti-transmasculinity. Real life transandrophobia shapes a lot of my experiences, especially while I was in college trying to navigate queer spaces there.

I lived in the gender inclusive housing when I went to college the first time, but my roommate was a cis guy because he was the most chill person with living with me (sending lots of love to Brad wherever you are). I felt a lot of jokes at my expense while I was there, and trying to interact with the LGBTQ club on campus. A lot of malgendering. A lot of misgendering even, from other queer folks who would use they/them on me exclusively when I'd mentioned repeatedly I only used he/him.

It honestly put me off from a lot of queer spaces in real life. Even now, I'm hesitant to be more active in queer spaces (I'm active in an activist sense but not in a party and going to karaoke sense) because I just don't wanna deal with being the group punching bag for being a dude, or to have people shit on me for finding men hot.

How to Spot Bait Accounts 👍✨

So here's the account with the inflammatory tags. #blancandrophobia ?? Notallwhitepeople??

How shocking, how outrageous, how very... conveniently saying things people accuse trans men who talk about transandrophobia of saying, despite not being by any means a popular of recognizable belief. Are the haters true???

Here we have a slurry of non-suspicious beliefs including being a 911 survivor while being 26 years old. Topped with a pic crew icon and a banner with "Vote to PROTECT TRANS MEN."

You get the feeling the creator of this account doesn't like trans men very much.

Which, right off the bat, this feels like poor taste right-wing satire slop of like, an SJW caricature, but the buzzwords are too specifically tumblr discourse pilled to be someone offsite.

Okay. So this account only started posting yesterday

Despite this fact, they're already receiving anonymous asks. How popular!

What outrageous content! And, it can't be, Hashtag transandrophobia??

And here is an anon who is engaging with the content of the blog sincerely?? 30 likes??

Is this some insidious side of the transandrophobia tag? How absolutely damning.

Let's look at the likes to see who among us who could support such a message.

Mhmhm, starting from the bottom.

Huh. Surprising to see this sort of user, who uses the term "transandrobros" to be liking a post like this. What about the next ones.

I'm starting to sense a trend here.

What about the one tagged reblog here? Directly calling the blog awesome?

I'm getting the sense that these blogs don't like trans men/transmascs very much.

Those that are trans men/transmasc themselves not alleviating that fact.

One last secret tip ✨:

you must protect the anime titty for the anime titty's sake as well as for the sake of queer people and sexual education (etc). it is good and beautiful for there to be cheesy games to masturbate to. nobody is growing hair on their palms and going blind.

It’s true that the majority of Romani people settled in Europe, but Romani people are actually originally from South Asia! The area they’re descended from is India and Pakistan today, and because of the way Romani people travelled after leaving India, they generally also have some Iranian ancestry and some Balkan ancestry. 

Romani people are generally not considered white, especially in Europe. In most of Europe (especially Central and Eastern Europe), Romani people still deal with things like living in segregated neighbourhoods and attending segregated schools, as well as actual physical violence. Romani people were targeted during the Holocaust, and as many as two million Romani people died. Hundreds or even thousands of Romani people seek asylum in Canada every year because of ethnic persecution in Europe. Even in America, where Romani people exist in relatively small numbers and therefore tend to be invisible, Romani people haven’t generally been treated as white. The first Romani people in America were brought there as slaves, and Romani people were legally classified as coloured under the law. Many Romani people (though by no means all) do have light skin and can pass as white, but that doesn’t mean they are white.

While it’s not a competition, the virulence of antiziganism in Europe rivals anti-black racism in the Deep South. Racial discrimination is not “White=oppressor” “Black=oppressed”. It’s “Dominant(politically, economically,culturally)=oppressor” “Marginalized=oppressed”. Dominant can be the majority or the minority, and often is white, but it can also be Korean, Arab, Indian, Latino…

Hell, Dominant/oppressor can be black. The most extreme example of Dominant black racism is the genocidal Hutu Power movement in Rwanda. That’s a concrete example of racial hatred (mostly) separate from white people.

While I’m here, I’d like to highlight a little-known episode of history regarding racism, that being Arab (predominantly Saudi) enslavement of black East Africans. There was actually a thriving slave trade in the Red Sea supplying slaves to the Arab world that persisted until pressure from white people forced it to stop in the 1860s.

I’m sorry, there’s a mistake in my script here. I meant to say