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The following is a list of posts, articles, sites etc that talk about transandrophobia and/or anti-transmasculinity, or broader issues and experiences of transmascs that may not use (or even like) this language. I think it's important to look at works from people of all perspectives, and I think it's important for us to be able to look at others' works and see if we can apply our own frameworks (i.e anti-transmasculinity) to the ideas they're presenting as well.

I have also included some texts that I consider foundational to these theories, and I highly recommend reading them to see the frameworks a lot of us are building upon.

Some of these works are much more academic in nature, which I understand is an entry barrier. If anyone needs help with parts of works that you may not understand or would like a second opinion, feel free to DM me or send me an ask and I'll try my best to help out if spoons and time is available.

** = contains more links you should also click through and read thoroughly. Some links may be repeated here, because I think they're also foundational and/or exceptional works.

Transmasc Issues & Experiences

Coiner's (st-dionysus) definition of transandrophobia

**genderkoolaid's intro to anti-transmasculinity

**Archive of Violence Against Trans*masculine People by genderkoolaid

**nothorses' pinned post

The Transgender Dictionary "Transandrophobia" page

Not transmasc invisibility, but erasure by S.L. Void

"irl we just kiss" by S.L Void

Boygirl Girlboy blues by S.L. Void

Eraserhead by Jude Doyle

TERFs, Trans Mascs, and Two Steve Feminism by Jude Doyle

Trans Man or Baby Boy? by Adrian Beyer

There is a hidden epidemic of violence against transmasculine people by Orion Rodriguez

Trans Male Privilege by The Trans Dandy

"My Story Is One of Many": The Criminalization of Testosterone HRT by Stann Fransisco

Strip searches, trauma, isolation: Trans men describe life behind bars by Aviva Stahl

**Repro Masculinity: “An intimate snapshot of trans masculinity, reproductive health and the care that keeps us alive” by Ale Pedraza Buenahora, with interviews of many others

Can the Monster Speak? by Paul B. Preciado

Youngman by Lou Sullivan (also known as We Both Laughed in Pleasure)

Sons of the Movement by Bobby Noble

Becoming a Visible Man by Jamison Green

A Trans Man Walks Into a Gay Bar by Harry Nicholas

Transmasculinity and Feminism by Liam Lair

Other Trans Theory

Trans, Feminism: Or, Reading like a Depressed Transsexual by Cameron Awkward-Rich

The Transunitist Manifesto by Luke B.

The Transfeminist Manifesto by Emi Koyama

A Short History of Trans Misogyny by Jules Gill-Peterson

**What is Transmisogyny? by Julia Serano

Articulating Trans-Misogyny by Julia Serano

Black Trans Feminism by Marquis Bey

Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler

Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton

I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am Not Coming Out. by Jennifer Coates

Feminism & Intersectionality

Feminism is for Everybody by bell hooks

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity and Love by bell hooks

The Routledge Global History of Feminism by Bonnie G. Smith (editor), Nova Robinson (editor)

the problem with radical feminism by lou reading things (youtube)

Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis by Joan Scott

The Urgency of Intersectionality TED talk by Kimberle Crenshaw

Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex by Kimberle Crenshaw

Mapping the Margins by Kimberle Crenshaw

There is No Hierarchy of Oppressions by Audre Lorde

The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House by Audre Lorde

Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis

Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis

This Bridge Called My Back, editors Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa; foreword, Toni Cade Bambara

so here’s the floor planers. they’re workmen. they’re workmen. they’re not some rent boy you dolled up with a helmet to be achilles or adonis. artists have been hornily painting working-class models (and sex-worker boyfriends) into their portraits forever, but you’re supposed to frame your appreciation for the male form as an intellectually irreproachable appreciation for the heroic body from literature, or, conversely you could depict the humble beauty of peasants, if you must, but it had to be a sort of ode to nature and the simple life. peasants could be art, as long as they were… out there, you know. in a field. being a metaphor. so there’s your options for looking at a shirtless guy: he’s got to be mythic.

but no. look, here, at the workmen. the floor planers. the workmen’s bodies not dressed up in sandals and helmet, in flowers, on a pedestal. the workmen not employed as some distant paean to an arcadian countryside, not stacking sheaves or holding a lamb or elevating the beauty of nature. they’re here, they’re urban, they’re in a room just like you might have. the workers of your world, in your home, in this reality. the male body as a very real, very nonfigurative tool, humble and employed, but still gorgeous. the beauty of the men that the patrician class pays not to see. the men who come into your mansion through the back door and work unseen and leave unseen. those men. there, right there, this painting, glowing and beautiful.

not adonis. but beautiful.

anyway at the time everyone fucking hated this picture because it’s a direct slap across the classist chops. they were BIG MAD, this was filthy, it was an affront. they hated it. the paris salon rejected it. established intellectuals didn’t want anything to do with this kind of confrontation. it wasn’t art.

i just love that.

like, look at those hot guys go. look at the shine on the floor and the way their arms are. no virtuous framing, no classic allusions. just some regular guys making the floors nice for a rich fucker who never laid eyes on them at all. but here they are: look at them.

I know this screenshot is from a post from a couple of months ago but I want to put it in its own post because it’s so demonstrative of the kind of backwards reasoning these people use when it comes to trans issues.

When I say that both transmasculinity itself and transmasculine oppression are epistemologically neutered, this is exactly what I mean. Inequivocable proof of transmascs being unambiguously targeted for their transmasculinity (in this case, trans men of color being essentially tortured in ICE camps) is still inadmissible, because all this news proves is that a transfeminine person would have it worse. There is a rhetorical sleight of hand at play that substitutes the real, named transmascs in the story - specific and individual human people who relayed their own experiences in details firsthand - with entirely hypothetical transfeminine people not in the story at all. The transfem that the tagger imagined in their head for the sole purpose of dismissing anti-transmasculine violence becomes the real person, while the real and named transmascs melt into a mist and become purely hypothetical.

The nature of inhabiting transmasculinity in a world of history-long transmasculine epistemicide is that you are never taken as yourself, in your full living human body, with its discrete characteristics (whatever they may be), its history, its traumas, its unique positionality: you are never read as yourself because your ‘self’ is inherently illegible. Instead you’re like a text in an unknown language that others try to interpret comparing you to know quantities (even aberrant ones) and always finding you lacking in some way - less beautiful, less strong, less virtuous, less meaningful, less interesting, less valuable - because you are being graded on a system that is not just built without you, but rather built around your absence.

To make an example: Often I speak of the ways that growing up as a member of the female social sexgender class has shaped me in the person I am, and specifically the behaviors I have been trained and coerced into in order to escape additional punitive violence (on top of the regular violence being seen as a girl/woman gets you just to keep you subdued into the underclass). I have been taught to walk a certain way, stand and sit a certain way, to make way for people that register as men, to shrink myself around them, to fawn, to smile, to modulate my voice to sound submissive and placating, to defer to them, to apologize for speaking in the first place, to wrap my speech in conditionals and justifications, to make a show of doubting myself even when I’m sure of what I’m saying. This behavior is impossible to completely unlearn while living in a body perceived by others as female, because every step out of line is answered by a retaliation equal in proportion. You people would know about this if any of you listened to cis women. transitioning does not remove this behavior, certainly not instantaneously, and on top of that, having this heavily feminine-coded behavior and speech patterns while appearing even ‘imperfectly’ or ‘somewhat’ male is also grounds for punishment, more or less severe. You would think the people who talk all day of transmisogyny would be able to see this.

Now if I speak of this, I sometimes receive this response: but what about when you pass? When you look and sound and move exactly as a normative cis man does, won’t you have the space and opportunity to unlearn this behavior completely? will you still be claiming that your upbringing has shaped you so, ‘clinging’ to your AGAB? And that certainly sounds like a good argument, if you don’t notice the sleight of hand. If you ignore the fact that it is being told to me, a specific individual trans man with a specific history and body. I am 30 years old. I have been medically transitioning from a while. I do not look like a cis man or a cis woman or a transfeminine person - I look transmasculine. As of now, this much-discussed ‘male passing privilege’ has not reached me even remotely.

Now, because there is no cultural notion of what transmasculinity is or looks like, I am usually read as a medically aberrant and gender non conforming cis woman. At times I’m also read as a gender non conforming, queer, very young cis man, while some other times I’m read as transfeminine. In a few extreme cases where I do my best to ‘girlmode’ out of necessity I can even read as a quasi-normative cis woman, albeit an extremely quirky one. But I am never, ever read as a normative cis man. That has genuinely never happened to me. It is very possible that, due to a mix of my individual medical circumstances, my desires for my own body, and my sexuality and aesthetics, I may never happen. I may never move through the world as a normative (and straight) cis man on a regular basis. I cannot know that for sure because I have a hopefully long life ahead of me, but I certainly wouldn’t discount it as a possibility.

And still, to the person posing the argument of “what about when you pass”, my lived reality for my entire 30 years of life, which will continue to be my lived reality for the short and medium term future, is superseded by the specter of the entirely hypothetical, very possibly forever-inexistent, normative cis-passing straight-passing stealth masculine man they have summoned in their own mind to dismiss the real, present, firsthand testimony of my own lived experience. Their ‘headcanon’ of what I could one day turn into becomes more real than the living, breathing person I am.

Text of tweet under the cut because it is loooong.

But... Stochastic Parrots.