Found this in the comments of Shaun's latest video on Andrew Tate, in which he talks pretty extensively about how important it is for men to find ways to be confident in their genders without trying to adhere to, or enforce, anyone else's ideas of manhood on anyone.

Highly recommend checking it out.

Anyway. I rarely see folks talk about the positive impact transmascs have on manhood as a whole, and I think it's important to acknowledge and celebrate that.

idk who needs to hear this but trans men are not only allowed but need to be encouraged to feel proud to be trans men. hell, they should be proud to be men too, not just in relation to their transness. being trans men and transmasculine can be really fulfilling to people. the random trans guy in your high school calculus class didnt invent misogyny the patriarchy, hes still affected by it. grow up

Trans men are amazing and handsome and incredible and deserve the entire world.

This includes trans men with weird genders btw you guys are great.

i love you bears i love you butches i love you trans men i love you transmascs i love you drag kings i love you masc queers of all persuasions the world is so much better and brighter for the existence of queer masculinity

always interesting how the same people who when i was a girl insisted that shaving is a personal choice that no one should ever judge you for are now the very same people who, now that i’m not a girl, will fucking RANT about how i and other transmascs/men are gross and lazy for not shaving the neck beard

transmasculinity and trans manhood are things to wear with pride. they will never be anything to be embarrassed or ashamed of, or something to be avoided. wear them loud and proud, you are radiant

idk man my sense of masculinity is built upon joy and strong hugs and big laughs and protecting the people around me by drawing the attention of assholes to myself. when I was younger I used to go for the "brood and be grumpy" shtick, and it just made me and the people around me feel bad. I think my power now is in the ability to unwaveringly be a silly goofy guy. I want to bring laughter & love to a space. and obviously that's not a uniquely masculine trait (there's no such thing) but it's one of the biggest factors in how I experience my transmasc gender. god. I love being big and loud and full of love. promise me you won't be afraid to be bold?

Hi! I wrote a medium article!

If you've been at all interested in what I've been posting about historical sex work and FTM crossdressing, that's what this is about. I go over three examples of this in ancient Greece, Renaissance Venice, and 19th-20th-century San Francisco, and talk a bit about my thoughts on how these stories tie in to transmasculine erasure (& specifically the erasure of gay transmasculinity).

you can be masculine and feminine at the same time. being masculine doesn't make you any less feminine. being feminine doesn't make you any less masculine. there is no inherent morality to any masculinity or femininity you express. you create the meaning behind it by expressing yourself - your joy, your queerness, your health. you are not a reflection of other people's harmful ideas about gender. that's their burden to carry, not yours.

""You cannot piss in a cup or pull a sword from a stone or anything else in order to tell if you're trans or not. You are if you want to be. You're not if you don't."

This is what I say. No one listens.

"Look. I define transgendered literally; it's a way of crossing. Crossing into a different gender. Not the opposite, there are so many, just a different one. Or crossing out of the gender that theoretically goes, in that there heterosexual matrix we keep talking about, with your biological sex.

"Being a transsexual is a different animal. That's a matter of medical things or the intention of medical things, changing your sex you know? The sex parts: genitals, reproductive organs, hormones, secondary sexual characteristics. Or living full-time as a person of a certain culturally aligned sex and gender, whether you do medical things or not, because some people can't and it isn't fair to punish that. So them, too. But transgendered is wide open. And butch is a nonnormative gender yes? We can agree on that, anyway? So if you want to claim transgendered, great as far as I'm concerned."

People sign at me. They roll their eyes, They shake their heads. They want me to make ruling, they want me to tell them if they can call themselves transgendered, or alternative if they can still call themselves butch. As though I somehow have the power to confer or deny whatever label they want, or as though I can be relied upon to make an impartial decision int he case of an argument, whether it is internal or among individuals."

"Border Wars” Butch is a Noun essays by S. Bear Bergman (2006)

based on this textpost

possession horror really so often gonna be like "oh noooo I'm just an innocent sweet girl with an evil man desperate to get out of me, we must exorcise the man from within to become the sweet girl again" and not expect me to make it about transmasculinity?

If you guys claim that transandrophobia describes an intersection of misogyny and transphobia directed at afab trans people, or you define it ''as misogyny (or transphobia) experienced by transmascs/afab trans people'', then why don't you use the term ''transgynomisia'' instead of the other mra-like alternatives such as ''transandrophobia'' ''transmisandry'' as it properly highlight the characteristics targeted by these intersectional oppressive forces?

Honey Lee Cottrell, Loren Rex Cameron (1990).

Also a photographer, Cameron's work depicts the lives, portraits, and nudes of transsexual men and women. Primarily focusing on physical aspects of his own transition and that of other trans men, his photographs are known for their dynamism and illusion of movement.

Trans men are men. Trans men are beautiful and strong and brave. Trans masculinity should be celebrated! I LOVE YOU TRANS MEN