#mispergeny

"trans men are priveledged for being seen as men"

so which is it. which is it? it literally cannot be both. Either you think trans men are priveledged for being seen as women, or you think they're priveledged for always passing. You have to pick one. You cannot just tell two lies at the same time and act like you know what you're talking about.

according to Julia Serano, trans men facing transphobia and being seen as women is a privilege, somehow. Even though her whole argument is that feminine people are more oppressed by virtue of being feminine.

She says that brains are inherently gendered as either male or female, that the white western gender binary wouldn't exist if it weren't the real One True Natural System™, that nonbinary and multigender people are just actually binary trans but in denial about it so they can feel superior to trans women.

She says that trans men get nothing but benefits from transitioning, and never ever ever have trouble passing, and meanwhile trans women get nothing but disadvantages.

She says that butch women????? are privileged????????????? over traditionally feminine ones??????....like holy shit????? She genuinely honestly fucking believes that gendernonconforming women are treated better by our society than ones who wear makeup and dresses!!!!

This is the book you're all taking as gospel???? really?????

this is the "years of research" you're pointing at as a holy fucking scripture????????????

One white woman claiming that her personal experience is the way the world is, while she actively erases and speaks over other trans people and pretends like she knows what they go through better than they do?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

and it's like,

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Like this is the exact same bullshit of homophobes saying being gay is a brand new thing to modern times because they just heard about gay people for the first time like last year.

There is not a rising trend of people becoming nonbinary just because you only just learned that nonbinary people exist recently. Nonbinary people have literally already existed, and it's literally only just now that society is becoming slightly more incramentally accepting that /some/ people are actually able to come out as nonbinary without immediately being fucking hatecrimed and literally murdered for it.

Also just the whole "women identifying as nonbinary" no, asshole, if someone's nonbinary, they're nonbinary, not a woman. Figure it out.

And again with this idea that it's possible to escape misogyny by being trans. What fucking world are you living in if you think being trans gives you privilege instead of literally just subjecting you to even more discrimination?

Either actually learn some queer history or shut the fuck up. No, women are not identifying as nonbinary to "escape misogyny" because you literally cannot escape misogyny. That's not how this works. Being nonbinary does not give you any privileges over cis women, it literally just means you're going to face more discrimination.

The whole fucking purpose of fighting to gain acceptance and recognition is to make it safer for people to be themselves, including making it safer for nonbinary people to be nonbinary without giving up their rights to the healthcare they need.

Anyways. Either learn about Queer history or stop pretending to know what the fuck you're talking about.

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