As a guy who used to be female (I was AMAB), Kelly’s post rings true to me. Fully endorsed. It would be particularly interesting to hear about AFAB transmen’s experiences with respect to this.
The change in how you’re treated is much more noticeable when making progress in the direction of becoming more guyish; not sure if this is because this change tends to happen quickly (testosterone is powerful + quick) or because of the offsetting stigma re: people making transition progress towards being female. I could also see this stigma making up some of the positive effect that AMAB people feel on detransitioning, though it’s mostly possible to disentangle the effect of the misogyny from that of the transmisogyny if you have good social sense.
In anticipation of being harassed (based on past experience with this community), I’ll leave it at that. I’m not going to respond to any BS or bother with politics.
As a guy who used to be female (I was AMAB), Kelly’s post rings true to me. Fully endorsed. It would be particularly interesting to hear about AFAB transmen’s experiences with respect to this.
The change in how you’re treated is much more noticeable when making progress in the direction of becoming more guyish; not sure if this is because this change tends to happen quickly (testosterone is powerful + quick) or because of the offsetting stigma re: people making transition progress towards being female. I could also see this stigma making up some of the positive effect that AMAB people feel on detransitioning, though it’s mostly possible to disentangle the effect of the misogyny from that of the transmisogyny if you have good social sense.
In anticipation of being harassed (based on past experience with this community), I’ll leave it at that. I’m not going to respond to any BS or bother with politics.