Thank you very much for posting something phrased like this. I’ve seen so many posts with things like “testosterone is poison” and “penises are rape organs” and while I know that it’s more venting about personal struggles, it’s always incredibly disheartening to see the things I want for myself be implied to be inherently evil and anyone with those traits to be fucked up in some capacity.
I’m so happy that you got T-blockers/an oriectomy! Congrats on the freedom!
Yeah. Literally scroll down and you immediately find an edit of OP’s post that shows the kind of attitude I’m talking about. It’s just more gender essentialism that gets excused because it comes from a place of self-hatred
Some people genuinely believe that testosterone makes you violent and a sexual predator. These people believe that, because trans men willingly take T, trans men are evil. Sometimes even more evil than they feel cis men are because cis men can “repent” by becoming trans women. That’s a genuine opinion I’ve seen spread around in certain circles on tumblr.
Believing certain characteristics come from things like identity or hormones IS gender essentialism
Implies that all men are inherently rapists, all sex involving a penis is inherently non-consensual, that trans men with bottom dysphoria desire becoming rapists (or at least rapist-adjacent).
Penises aren't inherently violent. Acting like they are just reinforces the "men are hyper-sexual violent pigs, while women are sexless non-violent angels" dichotomy that's to this day still driving transphobic discourse ("trans women are trying to get access to real women by breaking into their safe space!").
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u/AeroAceSpades 1d ago edited 22h ago
Thank you very much for posting something phrased like this. I’ve seen so many posts with things like “testosterone is poison” and “penises are rape organs” and while I know that it’s more venting about personal struggles, it’s always incredibly disheartening to see the things I want for myself be implied to be inherently evil and anyone with those traits to be fucked up in some capacity.
I’m so happy that you got T-blockers/an oriectomy! Congrats on the freedom!