It is like, I wanted to give Serano the benefit of the doubt, surely this concept does not have transandrophobia and shit built in! Alas, the least charitable read of her work is basically accurate.

original framework of transmisogyny relies on misrepresenting transmasc experiences to make it seem as though we have things near universally better. It's not malicious,

"Transmascs have it soooo easy!" AM I ON 4CHAN RIGHT NOW????

using our invisibility and erasure as evidence we don't suffer as much.

FUCK

I actually saw some terf shit recently that makes me question the whole "trans men's expressions of mssculinity are not targeted, trans women's expressions of femininity are" shit. The terfs are expanding.

I'm beginning to think a mixture of transphobia and misogyny directed at them is a phenomenon that all trans people experience, but the configuration of it varies wildly, based on their gender and AGAB forced on them. So transandrophoboa and transmisogyny are terms for different forms of oppression based off the same Lego bricks.

Fr, someone should write Theory about this...

Transandrophobia absolutely shows in different ways than transmisogyny, and how that plays out in practice is extremely visible in how various parts of the community are misrepresented in transphobic propaganda. We are all familiar with how trans women are demonized as invaders of women-only spaces, it is this fearmongering that is used to fight against self ID laws and for bathroom bills - which, ofc, affects trans people of all genders, it's not as if any transphobe supports self ID for trans men, and the death of Nex Benedict shows how dangerous bathroom bills are for transmasc people.

And when we look at the propaganda against gender affirming care, the campaigning is specifically centered on AFAB transition regret and "irreversible damage" done to the reproductive organs - there's a reason the vile screed of that name shows a little girl with a hole above her abdomen on the cover. The fight for gender affirming care is one for bodily autonomy, and if you have a uterus, that autonomy is always contested whether you're cis or not, and transandrophobia is a front where this becomes starkly visible. A transmasculine person undergoing medical transition rebels against the public ownership of their uterus, a trans man takes away the very ability of straight men to sexualize and objectify his body, and the dictatorship of the cis fights tooth and nail against these radical claims to autonomy with the double insult of being misogynist and violating gender recognition with that very misogyny. Trans men are constantly belittled as confused and incapable of making their own decisions, and frequently have to fight harder to have their wish to transition taken seriously. Most of the transmasc people i know have a substantially longer way between their coming out and when they start receiving care, and the pressure to not alter a body that has been claimed as not exclusively their own weighs in heavily on this. ofc once this discourse is part of the legislative process, we once more see laws that destroy or gatekeep access to gender affirming care for trans people of all genders.

Transandrophobia doesn't end once a transmasculine person has made his or their body unclaimable by the patriarchy, tho. I've experienced male privilege for most of my life and i can safely say that it's deeply fucked. This isn't like white supremacy where you get freebies for looking a certain way. Male privilege means that men get broken to be turned into agents of violence, and if you refuse to be broken, if you do not want to violate others, the patriarchy punishes you for that. I do not mean to downplay the harm men do or paint them as "the real victims", i hear about friends of mine getting assaulted by men every week and i gotta be honest here, it's hard not to turn into a radfem weirdo because of it. But i've seen firsthand that men aren't essentially like this, they get molded that way, and that happens through constant, intrusive male role policing by the most disgusting men in your day-to-day life. Which people in male gender roles get hit the hardest by that? It's simple, it's the queer ones. Everybody who has been a transfem egg knows that personally, knows the constant hazing, and gay and bisexual cis men experience different, but highly similar things to that, and this hits even harder in the case of trans men and transmasculine nonbinary people who pass well enough as men to at least get the f slur yelled at them.

In our lived experiences, all trans people get the unique perspective of traversing boundaries between gender roles and gender performances that remain forever unknown to cis people. Trans women get to experience the abrupt fall from male privilege, while trans men get thrown headfirst into the demands of toxic masculinity, and both of these yield insights that are a direct threat to maintaining patriarchy. And once nonbinary people enter the fray, the very foundation of patriarchy, the core assumption of exorsexism and oppositional sexism, begins to crumble. Our fights are often waged on different parts of the front, but they are always connected both in their revolutionary potential for gender accelerationsim and in the reactionary backlash we have to weather.

thank u!