this is just "trans people are reifying gender stereotypes" again. also idk if you are on tumblr or have heard of tumblr but "feminine trans men who don't want to get surgery or dress any differently are still men" is a common (correct) take. I think reading posts like this as "complaining" about someone else's transition is not accurate. If anything, the object of critique here is not "queerer" transmasculine presentation (I would not actually ever call Tom Holland a femme), but rather the overwhelming cultural predisposition in trans and cis discourses to favor youth and beauty.
"masculine twink" is the standard normative transition goal for transmascs. This post absolutely pushes back against that by saying that I don't have to look young, thin, or boyishly handsome to feel valid. "I want to look like the people that I look up to in my community" is an ideal fucking transition goal. People like this make for the happiest trans folks.
this is just "trans people are reifying gender stereotypes" again. also idk if you are on tumblr or have heard of tumblr but "feminine trans men who don't want to get surgery or dress any differently are still men" is a common (correct) take. I think reading posts like this as "complaining" about someone else's transition is not accurate. If anything, the object of critique here is not "queerer" transmasculine presentation (I would not actually ever call Tom Holland a femme), but rather the overwhelming cultural predisposition in trans and cis discourses to favor youth and beauty.
"masculine twink" is the standard normative transition goal for transmascs. This post absolutely pushes back against that by saying that I don't have to look young, thin, or boyishly handsome to feel valid. "I want to look like the people that I look up to in my community" is an ideal fucking transition goal. People like this make for the happiest trans folks.