Every day is more perfect than the last day.

Trans men are just as much of a part of fandom culture and art history as any other identity - with a GREAT example being ND Stevenson, whose work people just push off as lesbian or gay rep while erasing the author's transmasculine identity.

Our music culture is only "ukulele songs about bugs" because people heard A SINGLE SONG BY CAVETOWN and went with it, while ignoring great artists like Dorian Electra, Sunrot, The Mechanisms (which included a transmasculine character in one of their albums), NOAHFINNCE and Miles McKenna because they see he/him on an Instagram bio and click back because they don't want to do anything with men, queer or not.

If people actually bothered to pay attention to our historical record instead of doing the internet equivalent of doodling eyes in the margin of your notebook, they'd have learned about Albert Cashier, a soldier that went to war presenting as a man -- and ran through No Man's Land and back while at risk of artillery fire -- and Dr. James Barry. The literal reason that western AFAB people have safer childbirths. They'd learn about Amelio Robles, who literally SHOT people that misgendered him.

Hell, if we go all the way back in time, you'd learn that alongside the transfeminine galla working in the shrines of Ishtar in the Mesapotamian times, there were also the transmasculine pilipili, but they're men, so they don't matter... right?

Lately, transgender men and transmasculine people have been speaking out more and more about our experiences to combat this erasure... only to have bullshit like this come out from not only supposed cis "allies" but our own trans community too.