Sad Boy

Transgender people of every gender do not have the systemic power to oppress each other along gendered lines because we are not accepted as our genders by the system of gender hierarchy. We are oppressed by the same systems in different ways, but they're still literally the exact same systems.

Lateral transphobia/transmisogyny/transandrophobia/exorsexism/etc. exists in the trans community and there are trans people out there who will go out of their way to police and throttle other trans people — but that is not oppression. It's called lateral bigotry for a reason.

I'm really sick of seeing predominantly white trans people who are absolutely obsessed with trying to find a hierarchy of gendered power and privilege within the trans community under the guise of intersectionality while also completely ignoring the fact that race statistically has a larger impact on a trans person's access to housing, access to economic stability, their ability to transition, their experiences with violence, etc. etc. than just their gender alone.

It's straight up just white feminism. It's part of the well documented history of racist/race blind white queers subconsciously thinking queer identity somehow exists void of race because they view themselves as void of race. It's the white logic of "race is something that happens to PoC, not white people" and it is the exact shit that was alienating queer, Black writers like James Baldwin and Audre Lorde 40-50 years ago. Nothing has changed. It's still the same shit that continues to alienate trans PoC now.

this is a fucking twisted thing to say in general but it's extra wild for sugary-sheep of all people to be complaining about people taking her framework "in the worst faith possible"

If masculinity is always rewarded, then how come trans women that are anything less than perfectly passing are treated as less than people, degendered, predator-jacketed, "not trying hard enough" or "not really trans", to a much higher extent than passing trans women?

If masculinity is always rewarded then how come transfem butches have such a hard time in the community? How come I see post after post of transfem butches talking about how they feel alienated and used because of their butchness?

If masculinity is always rewarded, how does butchphobia even exist in the first place?

If masculinity is always rewarded, how come all women don't just start dressing as men or more masculine and stop wearing make-up and shaving their body hair to get a leg-up?

really read everything said here from terfs about specifically trans men/mascs

and if you tell me after reading all this bile that transandrophobia isnt real, just shut your fucking mouth forever instead

The screenshots above describe the experiences of the majority of trans men and mascs I know. Tumblr really underestimates just how much cis women (particularly cis mothers) hate the idea of trans men existing, and it’s images like these that make my blood boil when people try to claim that trans men have male privilege over cis women.

Look at what these parents are doing to their kids. Look at how many of these children are being brought to suicide and institutionalisation just for wanting to cut their hair and change their name. That’s not privilege. That’s targeted abuse. And these parents aren’t just getting away with it, they’re supported and aided and sympathised with by the government, while their children are violently demonised by the mass media and left to survive on their own.

And then those kids come online and see how much vitriol is targeted towards them from their own community.

My mother outright said "Oh he was better looking before HRT" (she has him on Facebook, old pics) and stuff like "Oh I bet his mother is mourning the fact that he won't have kids and she won't get to see him in a wedding dress along with other milestones"

KOSA/the kids online safety act has been reintroduced into legislature after it passed Senate last year and then got snubbed. It is not unlike the bill that just passed in the UK a few weeks ago. If you don't want what happened in the UK to happen here, now would be a good time to vocally oppose it.

Here is a petition that can be signed by Americans. Attached to the petition is an easy tool that allows you to call and leave messages for your representatives. I have already done so. You can also email your representatives by searching for their name, most have message submission boards as well. This thing died once, it can die again.

Blatantly stealing this image from that massive collection of screenshots, but this one in particular is pissing me off.

Do you people seriously think trans men don’t have severe social pressure to never ever consider that they might be men? Do you think transphobia as a whole only applies to trans women? What do you think happens when a trans man comes out, that the whole family gets together to throw a fucking party or some shit?

"If two guys were on the moon and one hit the other with a rock wouldn't that be fucked up?"

That's how fucked up it is!

What people don't understand about these hypotheticals, is they're holding up completely imagined scenarios and demanding the trans masc community take these imagined scenarios as seriously as the physical, lived reality that we all recognize is happening.

It's the trans infighting equivalent of "well, what if a cis man pretended to be trans to sneak into a bathroom?" Yes that would be concerning if it had literally ever happened. But since that's never happened, maybe we should focus on the fact it's overwhelmingly trans people who are assaulted in bathrooms?

It's the same story with this John Chads Man scenario, where a demonised version of a trans man exists purely to be demonised. It doesn't matter that we face some of the highest rates of violence, discrimination and mental health issues in the LGBT community, because theoretically, there is a version of us out there who could be a threat.