it is so dangerous to tell trans men that on the basis of being men, we need to be silent and that if we are disagree or challenge any woman, we are committing patriarchal violence. this rhetoric protects our abusers and encourages people to never listen to us.
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so many trans men have almost no experiences in common with cis men.
defining cis men's experiences as the standard of "real manhood" and then acting like trans men are real men, and therefore just like cis men is not only erasure but gender essentialism.
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there is nothing innate to being a man that makes men abusive, toxic, privileged, etc.
access to patriarchal power is not intrinsic to what it means to be a man or male. if that were true, we would be fighting for the abolition of manhood as opposed to abolition of patriarchy.
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this framing is classic white feminism, though it's not exclusively perpetuated by white cis women. it functions to silence trans men and erase the very real harm we experience, especially at the hands of cis women in particular.
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an ideology that protects white femininity at all costs is not one that will liberate anyone. listen to trans men. we are not a monolith and many of us, especially Black trans men, have really important stories regarding sw, disability, sexual violence, and more.
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