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I think a vital piece of information that transandrophobes are missing is this:
Manhood is gatekept to all hell.
I'm so serious. To be a man, in the eyes of society, you need first and foremost a working dick and balls. Even if we shelve that clearly transphobic notion for a moment, there's still all this:
You have to have abs
You have to have wide shoulders
You need to always want sex and be good at it
If your chest isn't flat it needs to be because you have huge pec muscles and NO OTHER REASON
You're expected to be straight (into women)
You're expected to not present as feminine in any way (because that implies you're not straight)
You're supposed to be athletic or at least interested in athletics
You're supposed to have at least some facial hair
You're supposed to be at LEAST 6 feet tall
You cannot be fat
You're supposed to have a sharp, chiseled jawline
You're not supposed to take it up the ass
You need to have huge muscles, especially biceps
And this is just the appearance stuff. There's more behavioral stuff I could touch on that gets even stricter. The point is, if you do not fit ALL of these + the unlisted behavioral expectations, including and especially the dick and balls part, you are NOT A REAL MAN TO SOCIETY.
Trans men are not considered men by society. We are denied manhood, and any privilege that might come with it, because we are trans. We're not SUPPOSED to be men, or supposed to want to be men, according to society.
But we are. And society hates that. And transandrophobes will try to take that from us any way we can. By erasing us and lumping us with women. By forcing us to detransition, or not allowing us to transition in the first place. By gaslighting us (often via assault or abuse). By making everyone else think we're "confused and annoying children" so we're not taken seriously. By malgendering us (ex. "You're not a girl so I can punch you") when we're perceived as men. By leveraging misogyny against us when we're perceived as women.
Trans men are oppressed for being men, because we are refusing to "stay in our lane", and manhood is not supposed to be our lane. This is why we need the term "transandrophobia". The oppression of transmascs is a problem, and the problem needs a name so it can be solved.
“Women nowadays are generally not punished for wearing masculine clothes or having short hair and are still seen as women while wearing/adopting those styles”
“All transmascs need to do to pass is wear masculine clothes and have short hair and people will recognize that he’s a man/masc”
Hm. These two statements I’ve seen in the discourse around transmasc oppression lately… how in the world are people not seeing how contradictory these things they’re saying are? Or do they just not care?