It's Funny To Me That The Same People Who Wax Poetic About How They'd Never Pedojack A Transfem, Will

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The American Negro has the great advantage of having never believed that collection of myths to which white Americans cling: that their ancestors were all freedom-loving heroes, that they were born in the greatest country the world has ever seen, or that Americans are invincible in battle and wise in peace, that Americans have always dealt honourably with Mexicans and Indians and all other neighbours or inferiors…. Negroes know far more about white Americans than that…. And perhaps this attitude, held in spite of what they know and have endured, helps to explain why Negroes, on the whole, and until lately, have allowed themselves to feel so little hatred. The tendency has really been, insofar as this was possible, to dismiss white people as the slightly mad victims of their own brainwashing. One watched the lives they led. One could not be fooled about that; one watched the things they did and the excuses that they gave themselves, and if a white man was really in trouble, deep trouble, it was to the Negro’s door that he came. And one felt that if one had had that white man’s worldly advantages, one would never have become as bewildered and as joyless and as thoughtlessly cruel as he. The Negro came to the white man for a roof or for five dollars or for a letter to the judge; the white man came to the Negro for love. But he was not often able to give what he came seeking. The price was too high; he had too much to lose. And the Negro knew this, too. When one knows this about a man, it is impossible for one to hate him, but unless he… becomes equal—it is also impossible for one to love him.… (Ask any Negro what he knows about the white people with whom he works. And then ask the white people with whom he works what they know about him.)

— James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

I used to push against the idea and I still do to an extent but the anti-transmasculine crowd has gotten to the point where I really do feel like it's beginning to get on par with how prevelant and awful the aphobic crowd was back in the mid-late 2010s

"TERFs don't actually hate men; they actually see trans women as women because they engage in transmisogyny against us!"

I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but I don't think that "ExterminatetheYchromosome.tumblr.com" thinks that we're women because we say we are...

Trans men who complain about “invisibility” show that they have never wielded it in defense before. White men among you, have you never used your race as distraction to police while friends of color absconded? Able-bodied men among you, have you never highlighted your perceived competence in a public space to gain a boon for a disabled peer? In the same cloth, trans men’s identification of “invisible” is an in within hostile territory, a tool with which to fool those who categorize us as one of them and allow our trans sisters escape.

This stands in all situations. We must don the positionality of man like a beloved cloth and stand up for trans women in every schism, combating all the coalescing ways their identities and lives are constantly under assault. This means protecting them in the streets just as much as it does in social contexts. This means shaking off the sad, sick, kicked dog look we seem to drag alongside us, collapsing and wailing whenever a transfem dares to express some form of discomfort or distress concerning our behavior.

Did you not think stepping into the class and role of man came with responsibility? Baggage? We’re stepping into a legion of death and destruction, guys. Dudes suck, to put it lightly. People sharing this thought are not new nor misinformed. As fun as it can be to revel in positive spins on masculinity, you have to look at the bigger picture. You are one. Welcome. It takes hard work to be a decent one. Having "trans-" on the front of it doesn't change this fact.

Does anybody remember the old joke “trans guys can have a little misogyny, as a treat”? Hilarious, isn’t it? I reckon the lot of us took this really, really seriously and, instead of using this lifelong opportunity we’ve granted ourselves to refashion manhood into a practice of prioritizing and uplifting trans women, we've chosen to become to very guys we hid from in high school.

Master List of Trans Male/Transmasc Privileges:

The privilege to be forcibly married off

The privilege of being raped and impregnated to "correct" their gender

The privilege of not being treated like a rational human being that knows their body by doctors

The privilege of having your existence erased

The privilege to have little to no studies about trans people involve your voice

The privilege to not have access to domestic violence shelters due to being a man (and not allowed in women's shelters) and not having many, if any shelters for men

The privilege of having your transition treated like you're becoming a violent, disgusting, monster

The privilege of having any sort of hormonal transition impossible to be done DIY due to heavy restrictions on testosterone.

The privilege of increased risk of cervical cancer due to reduced access to pap smears

The privilege of having abortion rights not apply to you

The privilege of being over twice as likely to be raped, compared to cis women (51%/21.3%)

The privilege of having almost 5x the chance of being sexually abused as a child, compared to cis women (50%:11.1%)

The privilege that when you are assaulted, to not have access to rape kits

The privilege of not being able to report a hate crime due to barriers

The privilege of experiencing isolation, rejection and distrust due to now presenting masculine

The privilege to have your pregnancy treated as some sort of sick joke

The privilege of a lack of credible research about how to provide adequate healthcare to transgender men undergoing medical transition

The privilege of not being invited for ovarian cancer screenings due to your gender being listed as M

The privilege of doctors not knowing how to check for breast cancer if you've had top surgery

The privilege of an increased risk of AIDS due to the most common PrEP meds such as Descovy not working on AFAB individuals

Others feel free to chime in! The list is ever growing

2004

"Women are the only species expected to mate with our natural predators" they're not our natural predators, there's nothing about how dangerous they are to us that should make you go "that's just the natural order of things," stop treating this as inherent and inevitable, also you sound like a TERF, we're not separate species.

man I just be talking about things and stuff 🐶