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The idea that trans men transition bc its somehow easier than living as a woman is bat-fucking-shit bonkers. It's not easy to be a woman in a sexist world. But starting by being seen as a woman and trying to convince people to respect you as a man is a ridiculous uphill fight.
Even trans men who pass live with the chance that having been AFAB will make ppl take them less seriously, because sexism. You'd think that would make trans men raging overcompensating dicks. A few are. Mostly we're solid feminist allies and supporters of trans women & NB sibs.
just the idea that someone would go through all that hardship just to "have it easier" or "be trendy" is deeply flawed and shows you just how much they don't understand the basics, no matter how many books they claimed to have read on the matter.
Right? Who are these people who decide to transition and have it easy from then on bc maybe they'll tell me their secret.
Yep!! Trans men are still men, but that doesn't mean that our lived experiences are the same as cis men.
They start from the assumption we're wrong about who we are and go looking for a reason why we would transition because they've already dismissed the real reason
yeah, from a young age, it's hard to report/open up about transmisogyny/harrasement because that takes you away from being seen as a man, and alot of cis people will side with your harassers saying that "well" and then some variation of 'what did you expect' or 'you deserve it'
cis women such as myself read articles where resumes with masculine names are accepted more and assume the rest has to be cake
Masculinity is some trip. It's something of a horror to grow up AMAB and not fit expected gender roles or behavior. Being perceived as overly effete is even... potentially dangerous sometimes. Coming into that anew must be, uh, fun.
I'm 5'2" and since I started passing I've been afraid of being beaten up by a rando at a bar twice, compared to the previous number of times, which was zero. Were men even scarier pre-transition? Yeah, probably. But becoming a man isn't some magical cloak of safety, either.
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