It's frustrating to see people treat transmasc and transfem as man/woman or afab/amab because it completely stripped the terms of what their intended usage was: non-binary purposed signifiers of transition direction, spheres of experience on the spectrum and inclusive language for those who were binary and those who were closer to the binary. It's so clear that this is the intention when people generally view the situation as "transmasc, transfem and non-binary." That is preposterous! Transmasc and transfem should already indicate that enbiness is included and prioritised, yet here we are. And then people using them as conflicting opposites like how people view man and woman, and erasing all enben who are not transmasc/fem. Replacing AGAB terminology with it, when that is completely inaccurate and still deeply exorsexist. And then on top of this, due to this misusage of nonbinary terminology, people are beginning to assume that tmasc and tfem are just trans man and trans woman version 2, further perpetrating the idea that non-binary as an identity is simply a "stop off" and people will "stop being afraid to come out as a real man/woman soon." They are forced into binary terms and told to disregard their enbiness.
It is all round frustrating. It's frustrating for me as a transandrogynous person, I cannot imagine how frustrating it must be for anyone who is transmasc or/and transfem non-binary, or any other enban with a binary connection.
The terms have been co-opted to replace the gender binary, but making it "inclusive for nonbinary people". That is a ridiculous idea and an impossibility. Rebinarisation needs to stop. Binary supremacism has to end.
