Oh ye of little faith

it's so amazing how you expect the transfeminism tag to be full of important discussions and trans people to uplift and then it's just:

“You know if a trans woman got a tattoo like this she’d be dragged like crazy!”

There was something that a trans masc friend told me that truly hit me so deep in my gut that I can't ever forget. This was before I interacted much with the online trans community or even other trans people much at all (outside of close uni friends).

i think the most confusing opinion i've ever seen on this site was "transfems and trans women experience transphobia and misogyny, and they intersect to create a different form of oppression. this is called transmisogyny. transmascs and trans men also experience transphobia and misogyny, but they don't intersect because transphobes see trans men as women. if you think they do intersect, you don't understand intersectionality"

hello i am a man with a uterus and i LIKE HAVING ONE: stop clinging to your agab its so terfy and bioessentialist might as well not transition

The Tattoo Post™️ is so revealing of the current state of trans discourse online. Really it’s quite a fascinating case study. Right from the jump we have the weirdly paternalistic framing that trans men should run tattoo ideas by their friends, insinuating that trans men innately have poor judgment. By singling out trans men as a demographic rather than just advising people get feedback on their tattoo ideas or stating that they think the tattoo in question is bad, OP implies that it is trans men specifically and no other demographic that deserve to be held to this level of scrutiny. And even if you stripped the weird gender wars bullshit away from the whole thing, there remains the fact that putting a stranger on blast over an innocuous tattoo is deeply weird and uhhh bullying? Just straight up middle school bully behavior? What the hell is wrong with you?

Tbh its pretty telling to the current state of trans discourse that I've seen over a dozen examples of cis men being treated with more kindness and grace then trans men, purely because a cis man has the POTENTIAL to be a trans women.

trans men absolutely are in sex work, the majority just present as women for work because it's much harder to make money if you don't. You don't see them because they're forced to detransition for work or you haven't even tried to look for the ones who are presenting masc. They're all over the sex work forums if you know what to look for and how they talk about it.

All discourse around transmasc issues seems to boil down to: