THE LEECH KING

as a completely oversimplified observation, people who understand transmisogyny see it as an intersection of transphobia and gender-based oppression but people who believe in transandrophobia see it as an intersection of transphobia and sex-based oppression. genuinely i think that's where the disconnect is, it's why so much of transandrophobia rhetoric sounds TERF-y, it's why some think it's about misandry and some think it's about misogyny, it's why there's no coherent theory about how it differs from transphobia. but you can't call these guys bioessentialist or else they'll call you a gender essentialist 🙄

i do think that transandros need to be understood as simply a transmisogynist reactionary movement at its core. they can and do waffle between sex-based oppression and mra talking points, because the actual arguments arent the real belief (and frankly i dont think its the belief of cis terfs and cis mras either)- the belief is that transfems are annoying, get too much attention, and are sexual threats- that transfeminism needs to be either defanged or eliminated. their behavior and apparent hypocricy make this clear.

I think it's very telling when people are quick to dismiss transfem headcanons with "oh you're just saying that because the character's feminine" but when you actually look at transfem readings of said characters their "feminine" characteristics are minor footnotes at best.

every single example I can think of of a canonically male character where the fandom sentiment is "you can read them as both transfem or transmasc! isn't that cool?" is a vibes-based transmasc headcanon that doesn't really make sense with established facts, and an evidence-based transfeminine reading of the character. and the fandom has decided that instead of one of these obviously having more merit to it, both are equally #valid

I'm tired of pretending it's not literally fucking fine to read a character as transfem because they are feminine. why are transfem headcanons the only ones that require a burden of proof to you? don't worry, you don't have to tell me. I already know why.

i do actually think people should try to use a word other than cabal