Evan Urquhart

Convince me that this TME acronym is more than a passive aggressive attack on trans men because I'm starting to get annoyed.

Ive only ever seen it used in trans spaces to discuss the unique harms affecting trans women and people who seek to transition to a more feninine expression. I feel like its incredibly relevant with more nonbinary people who were afab and present as feminine and ID as trans.

I understand the discomfort but o really dont take issue with saying "i am not a target of transmisogyny and cant imagine a world where i am. It has never been a background radiation of my life, and I feel that is a privilege"

But trans men can be targets of transmisogyny. I can easily imagine a situation where someone looked at me, clocked I was trans, mistook me for a trans woman, and subjected me to transmisogyny on that basis. Trans men aren't even exempt, even if we're not the intended targets.

I can't imagine that happening to me, and it still sounds more like a thought experiment than any real material danger. It's absolutely a possibility that a trans man is mistaken for a trans woman and receives retribution, but i feel like such an interaction wouldn't define -

- that mans life in the same way that it would a trans woman's. I dont mean this in a "misdirected misogyny isn't misogyny" kinda way but in a "this was never a factor in my upbringing, is a freak case of mistaken identity as an adult, and doesnt feel like an axos of oprression"