#I feel like I should mention Julia Serrano as an influence here
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To anyone who believes transmisogyny does not exist, the transphobes in my flat refer to trans men appropriately but refer to trans women exclusively as tr***ys.
They show trans men respect, complimenting them on their masculine traits whereas they regularly demean trans women, treating them as sex objects at best or freaks worthy of ridicule at worst.
Even when admitting they are attracted to a particular trans woman, they do so with a tone of shame and disgust. Meanwhile if a trans man can live up to their preconceived notion of masculinity, he is celebrated and admired by these same people.
This is not meant as attack on trans men or an attempt to belittle their struggles but an attempt to shown how trans women are explicitly targeted for being women as well as trans. They are seen as ‘shameful’ because to a patriarchal society nothing is more shameful than to reject its vaunted masculinity; its highest ideal.
To ‘choose’ womanhood, as they see it, is abhorrent. Especially when that womanhood is incongruent with how they define it. But to ‘choose’ masculinity is only natural. When trans men ‘choose’ masculinty, all the patriarchy hears is that it is right.
But trans men are men. They don’t ‘choose’ their masculinity and should not be ashamed of it. However, masculinity comes with privileges which are not enjoyed by trans women.
And that is the very essence of misogyny.
#transgender#trans#lgtbqia+#transphobia#transmisogyny#sexism#misogny#patriarchy#feminism#transfeminism#I feel like I should mention Julia Serrano as an influence here#read whipping girl!#sorry for writing a manifesto on main#I just got really angry about it#personal#vent post#tinkerbitchspeaks
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