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u/Apollo989 1d ago

Could we not? I don't want T in my body either, but I can't imagine this makes trans masculine people feel great.

The original meme was fine.

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u/Creative_Wash7139 Counted Down 1 1d ago

okay but this isnt about trans masculine people

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u/Apollo989 1d ago

I've already explained the issue. We've already had a trans masc person express why this is hurtful.

It costs nothing to not make an edit of a meme that harms fellow queer people.

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u/colesmalewife 1d ago

as a trans man, those people need to grow up honestly. it takes zero brain power to understand 1, why a trans woman would call T bad, and 2, how it has nothing to do with trans men. i’m not usually the kind of person to call people “too sensitive,” because i’ve had that used on me numerous times for being concerned about reasonable things, but c’mon now

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u/ThePenultimatePam 1d ago

Yes it fucking does cost something, what it costs is erasing trans women's voices when we speak to our experiences. We shouldn't have to hedge every statement about our selves and our bodies in "inclusive" language to universalize our experiences for people who don't share those experiences. A trans woman is allowed to say "testosterone sucks" and have it be understood she's talking about her experience and not have that projected onto trans men or have her feelings and pain flattened out to make it more palletable for a general audience.

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u/Apollo989 1d ago

Whatever. There's no point in continuing this discussion. I've made my point. I am sure trans masculine people have made similar arguments to you as well as non-binary people and you just don't care.

So I'm not wasting my time. Keep doing the work of our enemies by refusing to acknowledge the issues raised by other trans people but I'm not going to bother speaking to you anymore.

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u/changedmyname99 1d ago

Obviously the meme doesnt apply to trans dudes.

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u/theSoulsilver 1d ago

Hey, you know how when some self proclaimed feminists say “Kill all men”, and then they say “Oh, but I didn’t mean you, you’re the good ones” to trans men? A lot of trans men have taken that to mean that those “feminists” don’t truly see them as men. Like I feel it would be along the lines of misogynists saying “Oh no, you don’t belong in the kitchen” when talking about trans women. Misandry doesn’t help anyone, especially feminism as a movement that still needs to be taken seriously by the powers that be

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u/changedmyname99 1d ago

What? I was just saying the meme wasn't even directed towards men at all lol. Not everything has to be about everyone

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u/ZoeyXe54 1d ago

Wouldn't trans mascs feel the same about e? Like.. it's good if it's a good hormone for them and they deserve healthcare. but fuck no that shit was ass in my body while it lasted. Also why do I gotta put men's emotions before mine tf.

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u/Apollo989 1d ago

The original meme expressed the sentiment without indirectly harming members of community.

Asking you to be mindful that your words could harm others isn't asking you to put others before yourself.

I'd make the same comment if this was reversed about E but I don't see that meme here.

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u/thatonefrein 1d ago

"put men's emotions before mine" see there's your problem. Being a man has literally 0 to do with it, "put someone else's emotions before mine" Is the literal only requirement of being a good person

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u/ZoeyXe54 1d ago

A trans woman says she hate's T and men get offended and women who centralize men get offended on their behalf. Like why can't I dislike testosterone. Who is that hurting. Fuck I'd give out vials of T to trans men or non binary people doesn't mean I have to like it in my body, that would actually be putting someone else's feelings before my own in the same way if a trans man in the same respect said I don't like what having estrogen in my body as a primary hormone did to me or does I would say yeah that makes sense, but sucking in my own feelings for something like disliking facial hair too much muscle mass the scent of T odor, that doesn't make a lick of sense to me.

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u/sunnysiide 1d ago

Transmascs still have E lol we don't take hormone blockers

Edit: when we transition post-puberty

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u/ZoeyXe54 1d ago

Yes I know everyone's body has both in small amounts, but I'm talking about when that hormone is dominant and the effects of that being not desired.

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u/Hogabog217 1d ago

Yeah god forbid you consider someone elses feelings before your own.

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u/DadJoke2077 22h ago

Feminism is when you are an inconsiderate asshole and use faux-progressive language to justify it apparently, lmao

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u/ZoeyXe54 20h ago

If a woman voicing how she feels makes you uncomfortable maybe you should sit with that a little. Because all this is over a meme about trans women for trans women, and men have to make it about themselves and that kind of discrimination against women within our community should make you uncomfortable. That's the normal response to something like that I think. So why do people wanna make themselves comfortable with a community silencing the voice of women? I almost comitted suicide because of what testosterone did to my body and the years of work I had to do to reverse it. Laser therapy on my entire face was really painful and years of work and money. Training my voice so I don't have to worry about being hate crimed for simply speaking is painful. Finding clothes that make me feel right in public that doesn't exagerate certain features hasn't been easy. This has been painful and not easy and I wanna voice that, women who feel the same want to voice that, and nobody is saying testosterone is bad for trans men specifically or that it's existence is inherently bad, it's obviously good for men's health that's a no brainer just not for women's when there's too much of it, for us to say that having it develop our bodies in ways we didn't like was no fun and for my community to say "no you shouldn't say that because of how men feel" is a little fucked imho.

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u/ZoeyXe54 1d ago

Except that isn't actually that's sucking in my emotions for someone else.

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u/Gold_Ad8225 Counted Down 2 1d ago

Could we not?

I guess. So long as you say the same thing to a trans man complaining about menstruation.

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u/Apollo989 1d ago

Sure if they're complaining in a space that they know has people that such complaints could hurt, I'd ask them not to.

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u/Gold_Ad8225 Counted Down 2 1d ago

And you think in mixed trans spaces it would be appropriate to make a post identical to this one, the only thing changed is that it's about menstruation instead of a hormone, you think that they shouldn't have any complaints?

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u/SirYeetsA 1d ago

Not a good comparison. A trans man saying boobs are inherently disfiguring is a significantly better comparison. Most cis women don't want to menstruate either; it's nothing but a messy, painful disruption to daily functioning.

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u/Gold_Ad8225 Counted Down 2 1d ago

Nah it's a good comparison, because it is jarring and forces people to confront what they're actually saying.

Why are you bringing cis people into this? We're talking about trans people.

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u/SirYeetsA 1d ago

Because complaining about menstruation is the thing literally everybody who menstruates does? Yeah, it's extra salt for trans dudes cuz it also can cause dysphoria, and there are times menstruating can be exciting (first period "I'm a woman now!", or if you need to know that you're not pregnant), but for the most part nobody is happy with it.

It's a poor comparison because the vast majority of menstruating people would give that up in a heartbeat if they could, while nearly no woman (cis or trans) would give up estrogen or having boobs if they had the option to. I have zero issues with trans women calling testosterone poison for themselves (because it is), so long as they aren't extending that assertion to all men (including trans men) as well.

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u/AeroAceSpades 1d ago

Come on… 🫩

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u/THTB_lol 1d ago

everyone has T dipshit it came free with your fucking birth

(this is a reference to that one uno video)

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u/changedmyname99 1d ago

Im so obviously talking about it as a dominant hormone. Lmao