I don’t want to appear insensitive or anything, but 99% of political discourse seems to be implicitly about trans women. I’m not entirely sure why, but conservatives don’t seem to have as much outrage about trans men. When they’re being bigoted towards trans, arguing about sports, policing gender roles, or trying to make it illegal, they actually mean MtF trans.
People don’t talk about them as much online either. For example, I can’t remember the last FtM meme I saw on the various trans communities here. Most people I speak to in real life seem to forget that they even exist or something; it’s very strange.
It might simply be that it’s less common (though I couldn’t find any reliable statistics). My personal theory however is that it’s crossing some homophobia wires in their brains. Like they’re terrified of accidentally being attracted to a trans person. Maybe sprinkle in some misogyny as well.
Anyway, I think for those reasons, trans women are far more motivated to get into politics to protect themselves than trans men are.
Binary trans men are able to be “stealth” much easier because of how testosterone works. You hear anti-transmasc discourse in cis gay spaces because those men get sexual with men and some really dislike vulvas and vaginas.
If they aren’t stealth, conservatives see that as a woman and thus a non-threat. They can dismiss them as “confused dykes” and proceed to misgender and/or ignore them. See also: non-binary transmascs.
Because testosterone works the way it does, trans women have more to do than “just” hormones and so theyre more easily targeted. Plus, conservatives see someone who actively rebuked all the power of masculinity to “choose” to be “weak” and rationalize they deserve the poor treatment for said weakness.
On top of all that, being trans and/or nonbinary threatens the cultural narrative that gender is fixed and innately impacts what you are permitted to do in life. This threatens patriarchy because if anyone can suddenly switch genders or opt out of binary segregation, it means admitting that gender roles are manufactured and thus losing a vector of control over people.
Editing to add: there are more trans women visible online because they were once welcomed as men online and this is still their home now that theyre women, as opposed to those who experienced the worst of the internet as women and learned quickly not to mention their gender.
I think you’re on the right track. They’re terrified of being attracted to someone with a dick (MtF w/ no bottom surgery). That’s where the whole “biological woman” thing comes from, anyway. The hilarious part, for me, is that it’s almost certainly happened to most of them at some point. They don’t realize how many women are just extremely “passing” as a woman (I’m not trying to be bigoted, just using words they would say to illustrate the point). Like, trans women are women, and these chucklefucks are so in their own heads about homophobia that MtF scares the hell out of them.
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I don’t want to appear insensitive or anything, but 99% of political discourse seems to be implicitly about trans women. I’m not entirely sure why, but conservatives don’t seem to have as much outrage about trans men. When they’re being bigoted towards trans, arguing about sports, policing gender roles, or trying to make it illegal, they actually mean MtF trans.
People don’t talk about them as much online either. For example, I can’t remember the last FtM meme I saw on the various trans communities here. Most people I speak to in real life seem to forget that they even exist or something; it’s very strange.
It might simply be that it’s less common (though I couldn’t find any reliable statistics). My personal theory however is that it’s crossing some homophobia wires in their brains. Like they’re terrified of accidentally being attracted to a trans person. Maybe sprinkle in some misogyny as well.
Anyway, I think for those reasons, trans women are far more motivated to get into politics to protect themselves than trans men are.
Trans male erasure is part of the transphobic attack strategy.
Binary trans men are able to be “stealth” much easier because of how testosterone works. You hear anti-transmasc discourse in cis gay spaces because those men get sexual with men and some really dislike vulvas and vaginas.
If they aren’t stealth, conservatives see that as a woman and thus a non-threat. They can dismiss them as “confused dykes” and proceed to misgender and/or ignore them. See also: non-binary transmascs.
Because testosterone works the way it does, trans women have more to do than “just” hormones and so theyre more easily targeted. Plus, conservatives see someone who actively rebuked all the power of masculinity to “choose” to be “weak” and rationalize they deserve the poor treatment for said weakness.
On top of all that, being trans and/or nonbinary threatens the cultural narrative that gender is fixed and innately impacts what you are permitted to do in life. This threatens patriarchy because if anyone can suddenly switch genders or opt out of binary segregation, it means admitting that gender roles are manufactured and thus losing a vector of control over people.
Editing to add: there are more trans women visible online because they were once welcomed as men online and this is still their home now that theyre women, as opposed to those who experienced the worst of the internet as women and learned quickly not to mention their gender.
I think you’re on the right track. They’re terrified of being attracted to someone with a dick (MtF w/ no bottom surgery). That’s where the whole “biological woman” thing comes from, anyway. The hilarious part, for me, is that it’s almost certainly happened to most of them at some point. They don’t realize how many women are just extremely “passing” as a woman (I’m not trying to be bigoted, just using words they would say to illustrate the point). Like, trans women are women, and these chucklefucks are so in their own heads about homophobia that MtF scares the hell out of them.