STFU, Transmisogynist Trans Folks!

freedominwickedness:

All men have male privilege. Period.

This includes men who happen to be members of any oppressed group whatsoever. It includes men who happen to be members of every oppressed group a man can be in! No matter how much their life might suck in every other way, they still have male privilege.

Trans men are not an exception in any way, shape, or form. Trans men who claim they don’t get male privilege are exactly the same as cis men who claim that there’s no such thing as male privilege. They’re not seeing it because they don’t want to see it, and they don’t want to see it because it benefits them not to.

Cat: Even trans guys who don’t pass still get the benefit of the doubt in a lot of circumstances. If you’re online and say you’re male and write in a sufficiently masculine manner, there’s a radical difference in how you’re treated. There’s much less dismissal of what you have to say, virtually no “tits or GTFO”-type jabs, and cis guys feel comfortable in sharing misogynistic sentiments that they would avoid saying in the presence of women with you. And even if non-passing trans guys share pictures of themselves online, the fact is that many of them exhibit such behavior amongst themselves on their online communities and are virtually indistinguishable from cis guys in some respects, except the dismissal of women and femininity is often even stronger because of the horror they have at the thought of being mistaken for women. Any male exhibiting misogyny has male privilege, and when trans men spout anti-woman sentiments in an attempt to make sure they’re never mistaken for one, this is where it becomes cemented.