#hyperinvisibility

when you google very specifically including trans people, you'll see that's not right. (i am well aware these results are US centered.)

this is just me giving one example of how trans men's hyperinvisibility is everywhere. you think we don't struggle with shit because you don't see it, because we're not included anywhere, ever.

All trans people face specific forms of oppression. trans women have historically been hypervisible because western media loves to tarnish them as perverted men, which then spurs copious amounts of anti-trans legislation to be written, but that doesn't mean trans men + mascs and intersex folks don't also have issues or aren't affected by transphobia just because the media isn't making a spectacle out of them.

Trans men and mascs are often underreported in instances of IPV, hospital admissions and murder because their trans identity is not known or disclosed, or they pass enough to where certain services are denied to them because they are catered to cis women. Additionally, trans men + mascs are still impacted by restrictive reproductive laws around abortion and birth control.

Intersex people often have non-consensual genital surgeries done to them early in life, and are often reassigned into either male or female, never knowing that they're intersex. This often is the cause of specific health issues, which they may not be able to receive adequate treatment for due to doctor's being under equipped to treat non-perisex or ambiguous anatomy. But if you don't know you're intersex or if all medical literature treats you like a one in a million instance, you will not be acknowledged by either the bigots or the LGBT community.

TMA/TME has created a false notion that TME people who often experience hyperinvisibility are more privileged than those who are TMA, who are often hypervisible. But the truth is, no group of trans people experiences more privilege just because they are not being talked about or targeted explicitly in legislation.

People on the internet believe that the moment you declare to the world that you identify as a man, you are somehow endowed with all the privileges of a cishet man.

If the privilege in question is based on being a stealth, passing trans man, then it is conditional.

In a white room but my ears are red

Black skin but my ears are GLOWING red

Same pink tongue, same words are said

I respond to them, but to me nothing is said

Make no mistake my ears are red

Even though I smartly said what I said

A different twang, a different pattern of speech

But no response

So my ears are red

They don’t know because my locs flow down

I answer questions with answers they do and don’t know

Even when they don’t know they sneer and ignore the truth

They don’t trust me and they are so uncouth

They say FUCK, IDIOT, SHIT, DICK

They scream, eyes all out their head

Veins, popping and pussing out their foreheads

Over being right, faces white and red

I speak sweet, shallow

Careful with what I share

But my ears are still red

They don’t even know, I’m glad they can’t tell

But the reason they don’t is because they don’t care

What to prove, What to prove

I worked hard for my spot

But my ears are red, man my face is hot

I don’t stay silent, I fight through the dread

Keep kicking rocks, control, conquer

Push through, advance

A silent, silent battle to keep my foot in the door, determined to never continue my mother’s path to poor

Blessed is my gift, so no tears shall shed

Both hyper-visibility and invisibility are not privileged stages of being. Both offer some level of benefit (general knowledge of a groups issues being higher than it otherwise would be, or higher ability to blend in than it otherwise would be), while also coming with significant detriment (being more frequently targeted with outward violence creating high risk of homicide, or being overlooked and spoken for to the point of being a population at high risk of suicide where they will be erased by posthumous misgendering).

Both give us a resource that other groups my not have, but overall are far more harmful to us than anything that resource can make up for.