No LGB without the T!
Artist credit dom&ink
Idk what trans man needs to hear this but you're NOT evil or disgusting for being a man. You do NOT have to suffer for the sins of the patriarchy committed by cis dudes. Being a man doesn't invalidate the misogyny you experienced growing up or experience now. Being a man doesn't mean you deserve to be isolated. Being a man doesn't mean you're inherently predatory or scary. You didn't "choose" this, and finding your true self is NOT "betraying the community" because you happen to be a man and/or masculine rather than a woman and/or feminine. You ARE allowed to be upset when people "affirm" your gender by malgendering you.
You DO deserve a community that uplifts you. You DO deserve to experience trans joy. You DO deserve to have your voices heard and your struggles recognized. Wanting the bare minimum of solidarity is NOT "making everything about trans men".
Im begging people to do the bare minimum to acknowledge the harm JKR has done to trans men and transmasculine people. Im imploring you to realize that her hatred does not pass over us on her way to other people. The first anti trans tweet that kicked off the whole panic was about language that included trans men in menstruation education. One of her first long winded Terf essays was about how the "evil trans craze was capturing our poor little teenage girls in its dirty slimy claws." Her ideas about pseudoscience like "rapid onset gender dysphoria" paved the way for garbage like "irreversible damage" to be written, which in turn is motivating bans on healthcare. JKR has motivated people into denying trans people their healthcare because she feels like we need to strip trans men of their autonomy in order to protect our confused little girly heads.
She has reduced trans men down to our reproductive abilities and infantilized versions of ourselves in order to keep us trapped in traditional gender roles that exploit us and our bodies.
Fucking acknowledged that, at the absolute least. And stop never talking about us.
