it’s confusing to me that so many that argue against trans men’s issues have to compare it to trans women.
their favorite argument is “”visibility is not privilege because [SA, Crime rates, etc]”. when i try to suggest that invisibility is not privilege, they get mad and tell us we have a less chance of something terrible happen because we’re invisible.
but more accurately, because we are AFAB and viewed as weak, we are more likely to have those terrible things happen at similar rates.
but no one can see us, so our deaths, assaults, kidnappings, etc, go unnoticed and unpublished.
i just don’t see how the queer community doesn’t see how both can stage a huge problem. a grapist might not go for the most obvious choice, they might go for the invisible guy in the back that they guessed is a trans woman too bc yk, they don’t know trans men even exist.
do you see the dangerous cycle they’re deliberately pushing trans men/mascs into? i really do wonder if all trans men/mascs disappeared if the queer community who gets the pedestal to speak on problems would even notice or call attention to it because they don’t view men/mascs (aka us) as beneficial members to the queer society.
probably no one would for a long long time, because we’re invisible and 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑢𝑠 𝑒𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟