Notices by GaySteve🏳️‍🌈 (steve@ferral.cat)

In the last ~60 days I’ve seen:

• trans women are all secret Nazis / racists
• trans women are prone to violence
• trans women hate trans masc folks
• trans women believe T causes masc folks to be violent (a terf talking point)
• trans women control the fedi, if not the Internet
• trans women control all irl queer spaces

All of these are complete bollocks, and are thrown around to create an inversion of hierarchy. To try to compare trans women to cis men and terfs who wield systemic and economic power over us. All of these statements are designed are interrogate our womanhood or femininity against some cis ideal. In this, they are all transmisogynistic at their core.

Yes, there are many trans women who believe that they should not center or include men in their lives or communities. This is not a trans feminist position, but a feminist position going back 50+ years. Does this, at times, hurt men’s feelings? Yes. But hurt feels are not misandry. Men wield cultural, economic, and systemic power over women - if you doubt this just look at the way women’s bodies are controlled legally and culturally through propaganda and violence. We live in a system of patriarchal misogyny, where women are always viewed as lesser than men, and any attempt to change that are met with political and personal backlash to reestablish and strengthen patriarchal norms. There is no such system controlling men’s bodies or lives, other than the dualism established and promulgated by misogyny. Thus, misandry is a farce and an attempt to deny the effects of misogyny by using a both sides argument.

…and just to be clear, I, and pretty much every transitioning trans woman I know, would gladly siphon off all excess T they have and give it to trans masc people if they could.