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Why do you think it’s wrong to have a word for a specific experience: bigotry faced navigating the world while a trans man or trans masc? Like, there’s so much that is specific to the transmasc experience that other trans people categorically do not face. If everyone else can have a specific word for their oppression at the hands of cishet society, why can’t we?

see that belief that its a ball that you dont get to play with is the exact misunderstanding of the idea that i take umbrage with. we are not arbitrarily classifying things, we are looking at forces through the lens of intersectionality. transmisogyny is not what transphobia against transfeminine people is called, it is the intersection of transphobia and misogyny. can you imagine if cis women insisted that they needed to coin the term cismisogyny to describe misogyny that is unique to cis women? being cis is not an axis of opression that intersects with being a woman. it is not a lens with which to examine the ways in which white cisheteropatriarchal capitalism manifests at different crossroads. while there is misogyny that affects cis women that does not affect trans women, and we can acknowledge that, we do not need to delude ourselves into thinking this is at all an equivalent to the burden of two axes of opression compounding on themselves. similarly, while there is transphobia that is unique to transmascs and trans men, and we can acknowledge that, androphobia is not a thing. there is no intersection there. you are not experiencing a compounding of disenfranchisement for being men, you are experiencing transphobia, for performing gender incorrectly according to the standards set up by our sick society. either by not conforming properly to your cagab or your actual gender. this is transphobia, this is rooted in gender essentialism, but transandrophobia is not a useful term in the philosophy of intersectionality.