There is something to be said about how the refusal to engage with anti-transmasculinity theory goes beyond the erasure of transmascs.
When you say "masculinity is always rewarded in patriarchal society" you not only ignore the way malgendering is a tool used to harm transmascs, but you also ignore:
- The hypernasculinization of black women in order to justify their brutalization
- The hypermasculinization of black men in order to sexualize them and justify their brutalization
- The brtualization of tomboys and butch cis lesbians for their gender non conformity
- The brutalization of cis feminists throughout history for simply trying to gain rights that were seen as inherently masculine to have.
- The brutalization of transfems through misgendering in order to justify their brutalization (i.e. calling them predatory men, weaponizing masculinity against them with or without that being their actual presentation)
- The misgendering and erasure Gender non-conforming or masculine transfems, noth binary and non-binary
- Intersex people that are coerced/medically altared into being assigned female who are marginalized when they present any sign of masculinity
- Cis and intersex and WOC (especially black women) who's testosterone levels are used to justify their exclusion from their careers and passions in sports without an alternative place to go
- The way masculinity in mentally disabled men, especially black disabled men and boys, intersects with how a lot of mental disabilities are labelled as agressive and dangerous, further justifying these men's brutalization (see: cops killing young black autistic boys in meltdown)
Masculinity is always rewarded in people that society doesn't want to brutalize. Masculinity is a tool to justify the brutalization of people society wants to keep suppressed. To say otherwise is just factually wrong.
And this is just one phrase used to dismiss anti-transmasculinity theory. There is a lot more to intersectionality that needs to be analyzed, not just for the benefit of transmascs, but for everyone.
