Just saw someone defend the use of TMA and TME by comparing it to the use of black and non-black. You realise you're kind of exposing the falsehood of your own argument here, right? Nobody calls non-black people "anti-black racism exempt" and I feel it they did, they'd sound pretty stupid. Calling someone TME is always exclusionary. It is not merely an acknowledgement that trans women face a different set of struggles to trans men and other identities - it is a cudgel used to silence discussions of trans mens' issues. When trans men stop being singled out and deliberately harmed on this godforsaken site then maybe you can start using it.

“It's insensitive to say top surgery is mutilation because that hurts cis women who had cancer” why the fuck does it have to hurt cis women for people to actually give a shit about the transphobia that Tmen & Tmascs face. Oh my lord. It's insensitive to call top surgery mutilation point fucking blank!

"Corrective rape isn't an example of transandrophobia because transfems get raped too" okay so is a lesbian experiencing corrective rape not facing lesbiphobia? Or an asexual not experiencing aphobia? Or hell, even a transfem not experiencing transmisogyny? Because transmascs get raped too, imagine if someone said "a transfem getting raped isn't transmisogynistic because transmascs get raped too"

I sometimes see the "only (cis) women have restricted reproductive rights" thing to say trans men are less oppressed than cis women and like?? Where's the law that only men can get abortions?

The fact that a lot of people are convinced trans and intersex athletes who take testosterone will never ever be as good as pericis men because "the science" points to "lack of lung capacity" or "poor bone development" or whatever and yet they are still overwhelmingly barred from competing if they take T even in mixed gender or men-only sporting events due to doping rules should really tell you all you need to know about how much of this is just scientific theater.

absolutely insane that you can talk about how parents will underfeed their "daughters" and give them clothes that are harder to move in and restrict their freedom in a way they don't for their "sons" and everyone will nod along until you bring up transmascs, at which point we've all got to pretend that actually the things that happen to you when youre a child don't have ramifications down the line and transmascs should just get over it. man up, even.

#cis men view trans men as women they can hit without scrutiny #and cis women view trans men as men they can hit without consequences