If the r/trans debacle taught us anything, it’s that trans people know that they’re not really the gender they claim to be
Have you ever wondered why the trans community loves to demonize the “cishet white man” but forever shields white transmen from the hate storm? Have you ever scratched your head and thought “If transmen are men, why are the white straight ones not immediately excommunicated for being agents of the patriarchy?”
I’m glad you’re here, because this post will examine those questions!
Recently the subreddit r/trans experienced an upheaval. It began when a TIF made a post calling out the mods and some other users for belittling the experiences and hardships of transmen. She lamented the fact that posts by her and other TIFs in which they attempted to address issues faced by their community were frequently downvoted and deleted.
The post was, of course, also summarily deleted, and the real drama began when one of the offending moderators told her to “stop bitching”. A flood of posts in support of the TIF ensued, with TIFs and TIMs alike (and probably enbys and femboys and two spirits and trigenders and nonpracticing aroace sapphic bisexual puppygirls as well) using their voices to affirm that yes, transmen are men, you bigot - men who suffer oppression at the hands of the patriarchy. These sentiments spilled over into other trans and lgbt subreddits, and for a few days it was quite the hot topic.
The irony of this hilarious mess, of course, is that their keenness on keeping transmen included in the Oppression Olympics proves that they know that transmen are, in fact, not men.
Remember that the bread and butter of the far left, and by extension the trans community, is vilifying the “cishet white man” (and sometimes even the “cisgay” white man). However, the majority of transmen also happen to be white and a sizable percentage are “straight”. Yet for some reason such transmen aren’t demonized for those attributes at all. Instead, they’re by and large deemed just as much victims of the “cishet white patriarchy” as women, TIMs, and minorities. This distinction would suggest that transmen, or at least the white “straight” ones, are not men in any real sense of the word.
Trans logic states that the only thing that matters is a person’s “gender identity”, and that the physical body is superfluous. Biological sex has no use in modern society, they say, and is entirely irrelevant, to the point that even sexual orientation apparently no longer exists and physical attraction is (and always has been, according to the ideologues) based on “gender”. That’s the argument that they try to use in order to force women to accept TIMs in our spaces; females must put up with intact males in our restrooms and spas because, according to them, those spaces are actually segregated by our internal senses of self rather than our sexed bodies. Transwomen are women, you bigot, goes the mantra.
It’s glaringly obvious, though, that such logic isn’t applied to transmen, despite the same “trans____ are ____” slogan being used in reference to them whenever possible. Women are browbeaten and told that there’s “literally no difference” between “cis” women and transwomen as long as we both have the same “gender identity”, and that a transwoman’s male genitals are completely irrelevant and none of our business, to the point that we’re not even allowed to object to being naked next to a male who identifies as a woman. Meanwhile transmen are coddled and afforded just as much victimhood at the hands of society as other oppressed groups. They’re well aware of this double standard, in fact, and often take advantage of it; transmen requesting and being happily granted access to lesbian spaces, for instance, is not uncommon. Some transmen even continue to call themselves lesbians!
This begs the question - what attributes could possibly be different between white “straight” transmen and white straight “cis” men in order for the former to be treated with kid gloves, catered to, and protected from their wicked “cis” counterparts?
Obviously not their “gender”; activists have made it abundantly clear that transmen are men just as “cis” men are men, as they share a “gender identity”, something that they view as a fundamental part of a human being’s “soul”, which cannot ever be questioned never ever ever. They’re also both white and are attracted to women, so the disparity doesn’t arise from race or sexuality. Nor can they claim that it’s due to TIFs having been “socialized female” in their formative years, as many trans people dispute that it’s possible for someone to be socialized as a “gender” that they’re internally not.
All other potential reasons for the disparity in treatment having been exhausted, we’re left with a single characteristic. Biological sex, which indeed differs between “cis” men and transmen. The thing that trans people and activists say isn’t important in the slightest actually turns out to be the most important distinguishing factor between white transmen and white “cis” men. It’s apparently a meaningful enough distinction that TIFs, TIMs, and allies are more than happy to go to bat to defend transmen as verified members of the victim class.
But it doesn’t end there. Activists insist that, in addition to being victims of the patriarchy, TIFs have their own unique needs to boot (as we witnessed in the r/trans blowup), which further reinforces the fact that a very solid barrier exists between them and real men.
Though this, perhaps unwitting, admission that transmen are female is used to further justify their victim status, that same logic is forced to the side when it comes to “cis” women and the fact that we also have female bodies with needs different from those of males. [Side note: as I discuss in my post titled “Trans activists do indeed know that females can get pregnant…when they’re talking about ‘trans men’, that is” it’s only when the discussion is centered around the biological needs of TIFs that activists will acknowledge that the female sex even exists and that its members tend to menstruate and have the ability for pregnancy.] Whereas activists shriek that transwomen are women and that physical differences between males and females are never a valid reason for feeling uncomfortable changing next to a naked transwoman, transmen are consistently treated differently from, and often elevated above, “cis” men.
This has been going on for as long as the ideology has existed, mind you. The constant carving out of exceptions for transmen (ie “I’ve never felt safe around men. Well, except for transmen. They’re safe.”) is a direct acknowledgment that they’re being judged by their sex and not their “gender”.
Just go on r/MtF and do a search for “trans men”. Here are some post title results:
“TRANS MEN ARE MEN”
“TRANS MEN SUPREMACY”
“Trans Men = Men and Deserve to be Heard”
Now search for “cis men”. Here are a few post title results:
“Cis men scare me”
“Is anyone else afraid of cis het males?”
“Dear cis men, stop”
So if trans people and activists know, however superficially or deep, that transmen are not actually men, then what about transwomen? Does the much heavier emphasis on forcing the “transwomen are women!” mantra down our throats indicate that they actually believe such rhetoric? Why do activists expect women to ignore the male bodies of transwomen while simultaneously placing heavy emphasis on the sex-based differences between transmen and “cis” men? Do they believe transwomen to truly be women?
No. They know exactly who they’re dealing with, at least in the vast majority of cases. They know that transwomen are men, and often mentally deranged ones at that. TIMs have shown themselves to have patterns of aggression, physical assault, and rape that rival their “cis” counterparts. They’re porn-brained and fetish-addled, greasy nerds who treat womanhood like a character customization screen in a video game. They’ve made it clear that they can and will harm anyone who stands between them and their “tiddy skittles”. The most vocal, most likely to partake in violent rallies, transwomen come in two primary morphs - the hulking, 6’5” muscle heads and the skinny but only slightly shorter overgrown-high school boy types who have so much pent up rage from girls not wanting to date them that they join antifa just to terrorize people who disagree with their worldview. The majority of regular people who repeat the “transwomen are women” mantra do so out of fear, out of a very real acknowledgment of these males and the capabilities that they have. This fear enables transwomen to get whatever they want.
In conclusion, the vast majority of trans activists know damn well that transmen are women and that transwomen are men. The disparity in treatment between transmen and “cis” men is due to the fact that transmen are of the female sex. This, however, nullifies the “biological sex is irrelevant” logic that’s used in order to get transwomen into female spaces. Activists are much more likely to push harder with such rhetoric in order to get transwomen into women’s locker rooms, because they know exactly what sex transwomen are and that noncompliance with their demands might result in violence.
I’ll leave you with this: next time you encounter a trans activist complaining about the “cishet white patriarchy” ask them how they feel about transmen, and go from there. In the end you’ll hopefully have unraveled their entire ideology.