#androhpobia

I know we've been through a lot as a community. I know people have tried to force the idea you need a certain quality/qualities to define yourself as trans. But you cannot make it so every time a trans masc says they have a form of dysphoria/mentions that most trans mascs have some form of dysphoria, is trying to reawaken the rotting corpse of transmedicalism.

A trans man saying the primary reason they are a man is because they have dysphoria and can only alleviate it and feel happy by being masculine is not a threat. A trans man saying they don't like their chest, genitals, or body is not "medicalizing" the experience of being trans. Sometimes people just inherently do not feel comfortable and it has nothing to do with you, with society, or with women/misogyny.

I shouldn't have to say any of this but I fear the continued rhetoric exclusively leveled at trans mascs is implying rather sinisterly that not liking your form rather than reveling in manhood or gender is a bad thing and means you are an old school truscum.

You cannot treat dysphoria like those who have it are less progressive trans people that should be kept on the DL by the rest of the community to prevent negative perceptions. It's the same thing to do this to those who don't express dysphoria but are still trans. I just feel in defence there is a hyper fixation on trans men who "appreciate the feminine form" and don't transition in the same way and it feels fetish-y and creepy a lot of the time; especially when it comes from people who aren't trans masc themselves.

I feel like a lot of this just comes from the same rhetoric that "destroying the feminine" is a real thing that is a problem in trans men. It's the same kind of thing that makes our own community disgusted by certain forms of transition like bottom surgery.