A Lot Of The Time They Arent - Tumblr Posts
This post is what I mean when I say that people on tumblr will misinterpret trans men’s posts to demonize us
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The post op is referring to is one of a trans man talking about how trans masculinity specifically is demonized and how people dehumanize trans men. How trans men are treated differently than cis men. How people see trans masculinity as something horrible, evil, and threatening in a way they don’t with cis masculinity.
This happens both with cis women and cis men. I’ve had cis men treat me as a threat, as a monster, because I was a trans man. My masculinity and manhood is seen as something wrong - different - because I’m trans.
To see a post of a trans man begging to be seen as human, begging to not be seen as a monster for being himself and responding with “this is what we mean when we say trans men refuse to give up womanhood.” And saying that being dehumanized and demonized is just something we signed up for? That’s messed up. This trans man doesn’t want anything to do with womanhood - he’s asking to be treated as a person. You assuming any trans man asking to be treated as a person by cis people is just refusing to ‘separate themselves from womanhood’ is so fucked up.
To assume that he was forcing himself into women’s spaces, and that’s why he is being dehumanized and demonized (it’s not this happens in all queer spaces) - so therefore the transphobia he faces is his fault is fucked up.
This isn’t people ‘treating him like a Man’ - because many trans men can tell you we are dehumanized and demonized for our manhood and masculinity in ways cis men aren’t. This is transphobes seeing a trans person and treating them as a threat because they are trans in a way they can’t ignore.
Some of y’all on this website have no sympathy for trans men and assume that all transphobia we face is our fault.