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If we were not men, we would not be trans, and we would not be marginalized.

We are not marginalized just because of a nebulous concept of "transness" that has no direction to it.

We are marginalized because we are people moving from womanhood towards manhood. That act of moving towards manhood is what marginalizes us.

Without manhood, we would not be trans.

Without that, we would just be cis people.

Even in online discussions, people prioritize the opinions and feelings of trans men over trans women.

That's a lot of words to show you have no idea what the facts actually are.

Do you have ANY sources for your claims? Can you cite ANYTHING you've just said? Because guess what: I DO have sources, and they prove you're lying.

What research article is your source for the claim "trans men are employed in higher positions than trans women"? Where is your source claiming trans men face less housing discrimination?

Comparing rates of white trans masc violence to the rates of black trans femme violence is NOT a 1:1 comparison. A black woman faces more violence than a white woman, but that doesn't mean white women aren't marginalized based on sex. Compare white trans masc violence to white trans femme violence, and compare black trans masc violence to black trans femme violence, otherwise you're being disingenuous.

I know for a FACT your claim that trans men face lower rates of assault is a bald-faced lie, because I've seen actual research disproving it and showing that trans men face higher rates of assault than trans women:

You are either woefully uninformed, or you are an intentional liar.

Again, give me your sources. I've given you a link to several sources that prove you are lying about assault rates, so why should I believe anything else you have to say?

Furthermore, I never once said trans men are oppressed SOLELY for being men: I was extremely clear that is is an intersection of manhood and transness that causes this marginalization.

Plenty of men face oppression that stems from an intersection of manhood+identity. To claim sex-based discrimination doesn't exist against marginalized men of color specifically because they are men, for example, is just plain racist.

Like, when a white woman crosses the street to get away from a black man, she's not doing it just because he's black. She's doing it because he's a black man, and the way racism intersects with gender means she's been taught he's extra dangerous because he's a black man. White women have power based on both race and gender over black men.

adding onto this, op’s idea that transphobia needs to be have a specifically gendered “direction” that aligns with the trans person’s true gender identity in order to be transphobia is bullshit.

while i can agree that moving away from femininity is intertwined w/ the transphobia targeted at trans men, it’s because we are still inherently seen as women by transphobes and treated as such, which is a misogyny thing. transphobia exists due to the patriarchy, which is a system that upholds men over women, and deviance from that system is punished. we are oppressed on the basis of being women in the eyes of our oppressors, our oppression always, always misgenders us. to the people who hate trans men and trans mascs for being trans, it’s not about how we experience our own genders at all. and it is not misgendering, erasure, or transphobic to put that into words.

the reason why transmisogyny exists as a separate term is because trans women DO face oppression based on their true gender identity. trans men do not share that experience, and we are provided a great deal of safety and comfort when we are perceived as men. masculinity is a safe haven from misogyny.

when cis men are punished for gender nonconformity, it’s punishment based on societal hatred of femininity and deviance from the patriarchy, not on the basis of them being men. that’s why misandry doesn’t make sense as a concept, and why there is so much valid pushback against the concept of “transandrophobia.” the idea that ANY men are oppressed due to their manhood is just misidentifying aspects of the patriarchy, which exists to oppress women.

A friend was doing a research project a few months ago about how people describe their gender, and I described it as “[…] a 3 dimensional object, it cannot be comprehended on a 2d plane”. And as I’ve been reflecting on my gender, I put together a small thing based on that.

❌White Nonbinary People, This Is Not About You or For You To Relate To❌

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Image one: An x-axis of a graph is shown in red, with the points between 1 and 3 being highlighted blue. The text overlay reads “Imagine the gender binary as a one dimensional plane… Everything is on the line, and you can only exist on the line. Everyone is a line, you can only be a line. Looking at this blue object, it looks like a line.”

Image two: A graph with an x and y axis is shown, the blue line from the first image is one side of a blue square. The text overlay reads “The object is actually a square. You can’t see that when you’re in a one dimensional plane (As those who only understand the gender binary do not understand nonbinary people).”

Image three: The same x-y graph is shown, this time with a red square that intersects the x axis. The text overlay reads “Now we see shapes in their entirety, yes? Once we’re not confined to a 1d plane, we can comprehend the 2d objects. We understand that this shape here is not a line, it’s a square.”

Image four: The graph is now a 3-dimensional graph with an x, y, and z axis. The red square from the previous image is one side of a red cube. The text overlay reads “It is not. This is my gender. My gender is a 3 dimensional object, it cannot be comprehended on a 2d plane (or a one dimensional plane).”

Image five: An iridescent impossible cube, as created by M.C. Escher is shown. It resembles a cube, but is an optical illusion, as the edges connect in a way that does not make sense. The text overlay reads “It is not for you to comprehend. Neither is it for you to reduce to something that fits in a 2d plane. I do not need your comprehension to exist.”

I also think it's cool if a cis man goes on estrogen, or gets breast augmentation for aesthetic/affirmation reasons, or even gets a vaginoplasty.

biological essentialism, cis-normativity, and the pathological idea of ‘transgenderism’ are racist, they’re concepts made up by colonizers that are violently enforced by christianity and white supremacy. when we say “gender is a social construct” we mean “the gender binary and the idea of transness, as it is defined by western standards, are ideas constructed by a white christian society.” i am ‘trans’ and ‘queer’ only because i am considered trans and queer by white christian standards. in my own culture, i would not have to ‘transition’ because my gender would simply be accepted.

colonizers force upon us their concepts of gender, biological sex, and sexuality while they continue to erase ours. you cannot separate the extermination of our culturally-specific sexual orientations or genders from the violent genocidal destruction of our cultures. the words that once existed for our concepts of gender and attraction were erased when our languages were banned and we were punished, beaten, and tortured for teaching them.

1. Defining women by their genitalia and reproductive ability is exactly what patriarchy does for the benefit of men.

2. The idea of being “socialized female,” if it excludes trans women, completely excludes the individual’s experience and subjectivity, which is an incredibly paternalistic ideology that robs all women of any control over their identities and lives.

3. It is an indisputable scientific fact that genitalia, hormones, chromosomes, and physical traits coded as “female” all exist on a non-binary spectrum in the human population. TERFs’ fundamentally binaristic ideology ignores and excludes intersex women, in addition to all women who deviate from the physical norms established by patriarchy; norms which TERFs are against only nominally.

4. TERFs’ frequent willingness to welcome self-proclaimed CAFAB men into women’s spaces while excluding CAMAB women demonstrates their disregard for combating toxic masculinity and patriarchal behavior in favor of point #1, defining women by their genitalia.

5. TERFs’ total disavowal of trans identity specifically and consciously excludes all indigenous societies that historically welcomed and accepted (or continue to welcome and accept) trans people before European patriarchal gender ideology was forced on them by genocide and colonialism. This is not only racist and ethnocentric, but also a tacit promotion of the European gender norms feminists are supposed to be fighting.

6. Trans women and other CAMAB trans people are unquestionably one of the groups in our society most at risk for poverty and violence. TERFs’ insistence that trans women are statistically the perpetrators rather than victims of violence is demonstrably untrue and an obvious indication of a disregard for the actual facts about patriarchal violence. If TERFs are unwilling to confront the bare facts of misogynist violence, they can hardly be trusted to advance the feminist movement.

Ok this is some really scary shit and please lookout for any Alabama citizens in need of help in the coming days. Our young ones are our most vulnerable