We can't have "trans rights" without "mens rights".
https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/1784429
We can't have "trans rights" without "mens rights". - tchncs
I feel like the root of most discrimination against trans people is a distrust
or toxic idea about men. For trans women, it’s the idea that they’re “men in
dresses” or “men pretending to be women”, etc. etc. Even if that were true,
what’s wrong with it? There’s nothing! It’s the idea that men are all sex
predators that drives this – that if someone is “actually a man” then that means
they’re inherently gross and dangerous to children and women. For trans men,
it’s just the same toxic masculinity standards applied to cis men. That they’re
“too emotional” or “too weak” or so many other things that make them “not a real
man”.
i agree that trans liberation is tied to liberation for all. but trans people's oppression is NOT rooted in some toxic ideas about men. it IS rooted in transmisogyny and anti-transmasculinity. trans people are seen as predators specifically due to transmisogyny and anti-transmasculinity, because transness is viewed as predatory, not because of some notion that all men are seen inherently as sexual predators. if it were the case that all men were treated as inherent sexual predators, we would not be living under patriarchy, and there would be mass movements to kill cis men and cis masculinity, to enforce and maintain law that strip the rights of men, to curtail men's involvement in all economic, social, political spheres of life. that is clearly not the case. the root of trans oppression is related to transmisogyny and anti-transmasculinity, NOT distrust of men.
i would also argue that is deeply harmful and misguided to attribute trans people's oppression to the notion that society deems men as inherently toxic. i suggest further engagement with transfeminist literature to better understand the structures that maintain trans people's oppression.
Any specific recs for further reading?
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