best boy in da whole wide world

Whether that be through a feminist lens regarding manhood or masculinity only through the analysis of cis patriarchal hierarchy, and/or an uncritical repetition of gendered norms produced by such a system.

So what ends up happening when a transgender man explains he is disempowered, and disempowered specifically in relationship to being a man and how the ideas (just like this) attached to it effect him, the only conclusion they can come to is that he must be implying he isn't a man, that he is misgendering himself or undermining his identity, or that he is weak and failing to live up to it- or that he is lying.

The complicated marginalization of trans manhood as manhood is so radically contradictory to the patriarchal values of power which men are expected to fulfill, and so contradictory to the intensely cis-normative approach to feminism and gendered oppression, that his experiences end up in a placeless void of compounded invalidation. Although coming from the very same place.

Enough that to even have acknowledgment for his experience of gendered oppression, his identity as a man must be severed from the very context of its existence. Just transgender, just a generic, unspecific transphobia. Denying the specific modality which produced the reality of his transgender existence. Cutting his social experience into pieces, either cutting out the manhood, or cutting out the weakness.

This continues on his invisibility, furthering the doubt of the validity of his own reality. Feeding into the inevitability that his struggle will go unnoticed and uncared for, and will not receive the attention needed to help him, or to change these things.

Ironically and integrally, all of this enabling his marginalization specifically because- well because he is a man.

MRAs: i deserve access to women's bodies whenever i want. feminists hurt me by wanting equal rights. i'm so lonely and it's the fault of women. i want to rape trans men to show them their place.

transandrophobia has a strong impact on me because i am on testosterone and am perceived as transitioning "masculinely". transmisogyny has a strong impact on my friend who is on estrogen because xe is perceived as transitioning "femininely". any changes either of us make to our bodies are through the medical system that is built for binary transition, and any social changes we make to our lives are through a wider society that has only made space for binary genders.

speaking for myself with some examples: access to testosterone therapy and disinformation about its impact on the body, pressure against "ruining" one's "feminine body", the threat of pregnancy, medical misogyny and shitty institutional understanding of the ovarian system, etc. are all issues that are commonly described as being transmasc-specific. yet they affect a large amount of nonbinary people who are not necessarily described as transmasc, including me! the same goes for nonbinary people who are not transfem but whose issues are described as transfem-specific.

in the effort of not misgendering us (which i appreciate), people sometimes throw in a cursory "transneutral" mention. but while that word is a useful and lovely identity term, it doesn't really make sense to me to use in wider feminist analysis in this context. not all nonbinary people who are not transmasc or transfem are "neutral" or would ever be considered such. there's simply a hole where we are, and little attention is often given to the ways in which we're addressed by binary society similarly to the ways binary trans people are.

It's both, it's literally both; transphobes declaring Imane Khelif trans and attacking her was racism AND transmisogyny.

Don't even fucking pretend otherwise, cause that whole thing was led by JK fucking Rowling, the world's most famous and prolific transmisogynist.

but i have never in my life seen a post saying to support masculine trans girls and trans women or trans girls and trans women who like traditionally masculine things and its really important to understand that showing support for trans women in any form is just as important as showing support for trans men so please, please reblog this.

transphobes getting creative now