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"transandrophobia" is not harmful because acknowledging transmasc oppression is bad. "transandrophobia" is harmful because it pins - and was coined with the intent to pin - the blame for transmasc oppression on a unique prejudice of masculinity which does not systemically exist and thus discussions in its name completely miss the systemic transphobia we go through and why it happens, not to mention the transmisogyny at the root of the movement which is why so much of its theory cites sex-based oppression and assumes facing misogyny is a matter of being cafab vs camab.

In most of the discussion I’ve had around the concept it’s been pinned as a word to describe the malgendering of trans men within and outside of the trans community itself, which honestly is a constant that most trans men experience. Especially within the spaces that focus so heavily on who is “TMA” and who is “TME”, because it often comes along with the concept that when trans men transition they no longer experience misogyny as a whole (despite the fact that a lot of transmisogyny is still faced twords trans men, even if it’s a misplaced hate.)

I’ve already seen some discussion around the TMA/TME concept going into how TMA is a wonderful term to describe the transfem experience, but enforcing the concept that people have to be one or the other is restating the gender/sex binary in a way that creates a divide in the community- the same divide that started the whole tranandrophobia pipeline.

I’m wondering if there’s a better overarching term we can use to describe the experience that is sucking people into this pipeline. Malgendering/Dismissal of trans men’s experiences/Misplaced TM/Overall Misogyny/etc.

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When you’re raised inside a single room with no escape in sight, forced to contort your body and your soul out of shape to conform, how could you not?

But a room is just a room.

When we fight our way outside we come to realize there are others who were also raised in rooms like that.

And there’s some who upon gaining freedom decorate their room the way our prison was.

I have one piece of advice for you: sit with them. Drink some tea in that room that looks just like the one you almost died in. Internalize the fact that whoever lives there now is free to go and happy just to stay.

Manhood may not have been who you were. Masculinity might be foreign to you.

Testosterone might have done things to you that you hated.

But a room is just a room is just a room.

oh wow their posts are rly funny and cool!

I click follow

A month passes

their posts are now nothing but frothing violent hatred for the "opposite" kind of trans person and how vile disgusting evil they are and how the world would be better without them. they haven't posted about anything interesting or even just mundane life stuff in weeks

I unfollow the formerly-cool trans person

If someone were, as a random example, say hospitalized for over two weeks with no explanation, I think that should automatically trigger a special election to replace them.

If you're still able to do your job, then prove it. And if you're not, then you're actively obstructing democracy by not stepping down.

Which is to say, that if a public official were to pass away or into a coma, and their handlers choose to obfuscate that fact, this should be seen as intentionally obstructing democracy.

This means:

If you draw a hard line between "drug" and "medicine" based on current legality where you live (or any other criteria) you've gone wrong somewhere,

If you think legality and/or prescription status tells you all you need about a substance's capacity to do massive harm to someone's body, mind or well-being you've gone wrong somewhere,

If you think legality and/or prescription status tells you all you need about a substance's capacity to contribute meaningfully to someone's healing, function or happiness you've gone wrong somewhere,

Spin the wheel again. That’s who’s trying to protect you.

(If you have zero idea about a name you got, spin until you see someone you recognize.)

Because it's a massive East Coast city but the property values are probably like $200 a month for a three bedroom apartment, and most Gothamites are like, "Hey, Bane never swore to break my back."

And here's the thing: you're not just moving out of Gotham City. You're moving into the rest of the DC universe. And it has hero-based power scaling.

Oh, Metropolis looks fucking great. But it gets invaded by aliens and robots and demigods, because Superman is there.

Wonder Woman's tangling with gods.

You go to Central City, and some Reverse-Flash motherfucker runs backwards from an alternate future and kicks your balls off at the speed of light.

You could move to the West Coast, and oh, an entire city just gets exploded by Cyborg Superman or some shit.

How about you move to Indianapolis, or Cleveland? Haha, no. They have no protector during the alien invasions, and you're in Cleveland

So stay in Gotham. Sure, you have lunatics, but you know that if you had a gun, you at least have a chance against the Joker or Riddler. Mongo of War-World would crush you. But Gotham just has creeps, and you know you have a chance. Even Bane, R'as Al-Ghul, Killer Croc, and Mr. Freeze are just slightly altered dudes. Oh no, Poison Ivy is going to kiss me to death! Who gives a shit, you kinda wanted to go out that way anyway.

I think it's all about perception. Gotham City has crime. But when Ares sends his undying legions to march upon the mortal realm and Wonder Woman has to punch all of them, people don't internalize that as "crime." That's "a crisis" or "a religious event" or at best, terrorism. Same thing when Superman has to stop Brainiac from shrinking Metropolis or whatever. That stuff is objectively more dangerous but it's on such a huge scale that "crime" is not the word for it. The cops don't involve themselves in this at any point. But the stuff Batman deals with is like, robberies, assaults, gang wars, serial killings. All his villains commit actual crimes, so they go into police reports, which end up as statistics. So when someone compiles all this data, oh look, Gotham City has the highest crime rate in the country, yet again. Forget the fact that 10% of Keystone City's population had their skulls crushed by invading superintelligent gorillas. Who cares that a random guy in Opal City accidentally teleported the entire state to Hell after he found out the hard way that he was born a wizard. Those are not crimes. There's nothing in the police recordkeeping app's drop-down menu for a Gorilla invasion. Closest thing we've got is Random Chimp Event.