• Ideology [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    I mean, I think it depends. I don't think femboys or drag queens are more reactionary than transfems. There are feminist femboys on this site even. It's just that the conditions of being transfem force you to come to terms with your rejection of masculinity in a very personality-shattering way. But plenty of transfems come out of their metamorphosis believing the wildest shit you ever heard. It's just not stuff that people trying to objectify us can normalize in their terms. Drag, similarly isn't something they can normalize in their terms because they don't understand the appeal of gender as performance for performance sake, there has to be some animalistic goal to fulfill. Chasers seem to conceptualize crossdressing and transitioning as fetish for the person doing them, and so when femboys take on a queer framework or transwomen write paragraphs of leftist gender theory, it loses the reactionaries entirely. They don't understand how entangled their own conceptions of gender, power, and sex are. Aside from that, though, pretty spot on. Femboy chasers actively go out of their way to stop eggy people from transitioning so that they can maintain access to that person.