on my hands and knees begging people to stop treating transphobia as this strictly gendered thing where transfems only get the Predatory Monster version and transmascs only get the Brainwashed Victim version. Putting aside the erasure of experiences beyond the transfem-transmasc binary, it doesn't really apply even to those who fall within it.
Tranfems get treated like confused victims when convenient. Young trans girls are brainwashed by their liberal parents / forcefully feminised by the state because they touched a pink toy truck once. Straight trans women are gay men desperate to escape homophobia. Black transfems are victims of a jewish plot to destroy black masculinity.
Transmascs are treated as predators all the time. Transmasc youtubers are causing kids to mutilate themselves. Gay trans men are perverted women trying to convert real gay men into liking pussy. Straight trans men are lesbians committing rape by deception on pure, hetero women. Lesbian trans men are a danger to real lesbians. You really want this bearded man in the same bathroom as your little girl, just because he was assigned female at birth?
It's both. It's always been both. And the more we insist there's a pink transphobia for the girls and a blue transphobia for the boys, the more we let this shit go unchallenged, and the more it spreads, even within our own spaces. Stop ignoring it, for fucks sake.
