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On Trans Men and the Word “Tranny,” or: Cut Your Entitled Bullshit Out

“Tranny” is a word that a lot of people think is subversive, cool, and theirs to use. Interestingly, many of those who most ardently defend their right to use it are those least connected to its violent history as a slur used against transgender women. The word is deeply bound to regulating and insulting femininity and womanhood, and has historically been used as a slur against people who were assigned male at birth or are read as men, but who present in ways that are read as female or feminine. In popular culture, it is often used by gay cis men and cis women via terms like “hottrannymess,” a descriptor of disheveled and failing femininity. Plug the T word into an image search engine. Call me when the results are overwhelmingly masculine presenting individuals. I will be sitting in a corner holding my breath and counting the seconds….

It’s like all the gaymous trans guys are emailing each other all over the world “YO BRO, I ACTED LIKE A TOTAL MISOGYNISTIC FUCKWIT, PUBLICLY AND WAS REALLY DEFENSIVE AND IGNORANT ABOUT IT. MAN I REALLY FELT PUMPED AFTER THAT. I’M PASSING THE PHALLIC TORCH OF ENTITLEMENT TO YOU NOW BRAH. IF YOU DON’T DROP THE T-BOMB PUBLICLY IN THE NEXT THREE MONTHS EVERYONE WILL REALISE HOW IRRELEVANT YOU AND YOUR BAND/ARTWORK/WRITING/PHOTOGRAPHY IS. FORWARD THIS ON TO ALL YOUR T-BROTHERS ********************”

whatever I’m not good at joke but srsly. h8 men, all men.

lol yea basically this

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It’s becoming increasingly irritating to me this trend of visible trans men becoming misogynistic/cissexist (seriously, how do you even manage that one) assholes. I just want to start screaming, “I SWEAR TO GOD WE’RE NOT ALL LIKE THAT.”

I’m not going to weigh in on the discussion above, or who has a right to use the word, because as a cis woman, it’s not my place. But I did want to post this for something to think about.

It’s also weird to see this come across my dash… The reason is, I worked with the Cliks a little bit back in 2007, and that experience is actually what opened my eyes up to very basic trans* issues due to the simple fact that Lucas was the first trans guy I actually met, and my boss would make comments when people misgendered him. Now I look back on that time and think, “Was I an asshole before that?” Honestly, I don’t really know, but I do know I was oblivious if not ignorant. :/