#transmasculine in nature

[muscacat]

Flag id: Two rectangular flags, both are rectangular with 9 even horizontal stripes. The Voltrailmasc flag is colored, from top to bottom; Crimson, purple, sky blue, baby pink, warm off-white, ocean blue, dark ocean blue, dark blue, and dark dull wine red.

The Voltrailtmasc flag is colored, from top to bottom: Crimson, purple, sky blue, baby pink, warm off-white, bluish light grey, bluish grey, dark bluish grey, and dark dull wine red. /end pt

Voltrailmasc [left]

Pt: Voltraolmasc [left] /end pt

Gender related to Mountain Dew: Voltage, connecting to the Trailer Park Princess aesthetic in a masculine way, cheap unnatural colored hair dye, faded hair colors with grown out roots, off brand items, and bad lightning bolt clip art.

Voltrailtmasc [right]

Pt: Voltrailtmasc [right] /end pt

Gender related to Mountain Dew: Voltage, connecting to the Trailer Park Princess aesthetic in a transmasculine way, cheap unnatural colored hair dye, faded hair colors with grown out roots, off brand items, and bad lightning bolt clip art.

Coined on August 7th, 2024 — [vol]tage + [trail]er + masc / [vol]tage + [trail]er + tmasc

Tagging @radiomogai @obscurian and @min-main-archive

[2econd2ight2yd]

I just read about how a female amazon water lily eventually becomes male and turns all purple and pretty. what if. what if I told you I was an amazon water lily

[holy-reference-in-a-username]

please gimmie eduardo i need eduardo art i am eduardo starved

just went through all of @jeffrrandell's blog and BOY eduardo has grown on me. absolutely LOVE their hcs on this guy. still figuring out my takes on the neighbors, but since i'm here...

Hahaha ONE!!!

[weepingfireflies]

I feel like "leftist politics that descontruct the patriarchy and heteronormativity are not inherently anti-men" and "many LGBTQIA+ and feminist spaces exclude anyone masc-presenting, reconstructing a 'men bad, women & fem-presenting good' gender system under the form of 'protection'" are statements that can and should coexist. You can't argue you're not anti-man if you also refuse to stand in solidarity with them when they're oppressed (due to being non-white, trans, gay, bi, pan, etc.) simply because they're the ~evil~ man. You have to actually not be anti-man.

[Terfs & Exclusionists DNI. I hate you, and nothing you say will ever change my mind.]

[en8y]

[IMAGE ID: three horizontal flags with nine stripes. the middle stripe is twice as large as the rest of them, which are equally sized. the first flag has these top three colors: near-black, very dark brown, and dark faded red. the second flag has these top three colors: dull navy blue, dull purple, and rosy-pink. the third flag has these top three colors: dull blue, light blue, and pastel blue. each flag has these bottom six stripes: medium cool blue, off-white, medium cool blue, light cool blue, nearly-white blue, and warm purple. END ID.]

tracketransmasc: a gender connected to being a transmasc(uline) tracker; this gender is connected to being transmasc, transmasc pride, transmasc aesthetics, tracker aesthetics, wild animal-related aesthetics, and ferahood!

transmascural: a gender connected to being a transmasc(uline) natural; this gender is connected to being transmasc, transmasc pride, transmasc aesthetics, natural aesthetics, instinctual aesthetics, and inhood/tinhood!

transmasceur: a gender connected to being a transmasc(uline) traceur; this gender is connected to being transmasc, transmasc pride, transmasc aesthetics, traceur aesthetics, parkour aesthetics, and kouhood/parhood!

@radiomogai @liom-archive @obscurian

[thepokedexisgay]

Hi hi! Could I get N, Gladion, and maybe Ilima with the gay flag and transmasc flag?

[mogai-headcanons]

N from Pokemon is an autistic aroace agender transfminin person with NPD, ADHD, paranoia, and chronic migraines who prefers not to use pronouns, but will accept she/her and they/them!

N is the adoptive big sister of Silver, an autistic aroace transmasculine girl with dyslexia, OCD, and PTSD, which its siblings support him through, who uses he/him, she/her, and it/its pronouns! Silver is an age regressor and N is her caregiver!

Silver's adoptive parent Lance is an autistic T4T greyromantic bisexual transmasculine dragontypic person with ADHD and hyperempathy who uses he/him and char/chars pronouns!

Silver and N are the adoptive siblings of Lillie, an autistic transfemme demiromantic lesbian with anxiety who uses she/her and they/them pronouns!

Lillie is friends with Arven, an autistic aroace transfemme sillygirl demigirl with hyperempathy and ADHD who uses she/her and they/them pronouns!

Arven is also friends with Bede, an autistic hyperverbal T4T nebularomantic asexual genderfluid transfeminine prettyboy who struggles with PTSD and uses she/her, he/him, and fae/faer pronouns!

dni link

[isdalinarhot]

the dalinar big naturals tag is lacking actual art of dalinar with big naturals….. let’s remedy that shall we

[tdicksupreme]

"If what we call "dominant masculinity" appears to be a naturalized relation between maleness and power, then it makes little sense to examine men for the contours of that masculinity's social construction. Masculinity, this book will claim, becomes legible as masculinity where and when it leaves the white male middle-class body. Arguments about excessive masculinity tend to focus on black bodies (male and female), latino/a bodies, or working-class bodies, and insufficient masculinity is all too often figured by Asian bodies or upper-class bodies; these stereotypical constructions of variable masculinity mark the process by which masculinity becomes dominant in the sphere of white middle-class maleness. But all too many studies that currently attempt to account for the power of white masculinity recenter this white male body by concentrating all their analytical efforts on detailing the forms and expressions of white male dominance. Numerous studies of Elvis, white male youth, white male feminism, men and marriage, and domestications of maleness amass information about a subject whom we know intimately and ad nauseam. This study professes a degree of indifference to the whiteness of the male and the masculinity of the white male and the project of naming his power: male masculinity figures in my project as a hermeneutic, and as a counterexample to the kinds of masculinity that seem most informative about gender relations and most generative of social change." - Jack Halberstam, Female Masculinity, p. 2-3

[trash-and-trash-accessories]

I do want to note that the whole "women are allowed to dress masculine and wear trousers" thing needs to be viewed in its historical context:

People fought for generations to be allowed to dress that way. They fought hard to be allowed to wear pants. Blue jeans were a symbol of feminist revolution. Women were barred from workplaces and schools for wearing them.

This is not some a natural fact that women dressing masculine is less shocking and humiliating. That normalization was fought for and hard-won.

And yet so many people erase the struggles of those people who fought to make that happen and pretend that it's just normal and natural that people don't see women "dressed like men" as ridiculous.

The Marriage of Figaro has what's called a "breeches role" which is a woman wearing men's clothes playing am ale role. This was done partly due to the vocal range requirements, but in many cases it was done comedically. It was risque and sexualized or comic relief that a woman was dressed as a man.

Anti-suffragette posters mock women wearing pants - well they were bloomers and split skirts back then - and mocking more masculine cut styles of clothes. This was meant to portray this as ridiculous.

They mocked the "new woman" in Weimar Germany, lamenting that they were too masculine.

This is a political cartoon from the 1920s depicting a woman in masculine dress deciding which bathroom to use:

Sorry but you're erasing these struggles and flattening history when you say this shit.

Women were killed and institutionalized in the struggle to make this happen. It really fucking bothers me the way it's framed as "people just don't find it as weird when women dress masculine."

Yes they fucking did. Until women and transmasculine people fought for their right to wear what they want. It's normalized because people struggled to normalize it.

And it's not normal everywhere. There are many countries where it's still illegal for women to wear pants. Afghanistan, for example.

Even in the US, it's forbidden and considered ridiculous in groups like the FLDS, the Amish, and the Hutterites.

We are flattening and erasing the struggles of women when we say these things. I know we're trying to build theory here but you can't build solid theory on a foundation of lies.

[cat-in-a-mech-suit]

Transmasculinity Throughout Time: Lou Alcott

Yes, you heard me. There is substantial evidence that the author of Little Women was in fact a transgender man! He actually didn’t go by the name that Little Women was published under, with family and friends he would go by Lou, Louy, or LM. His children called him “papa” and “father” and his father, Bronson Alcott, called him his son. He said in 1882, “I am more than half persuaded that I am a man’s soul, put by some freak of nature into a woman’s body.” As a child, he said in a journal, “I don’t care much for girls things. People think I’m wild and queer.” He would pass as a man at masked parties for fun, and delighted in people’s reactions. For his entire life, he expressed this identification as a man, and the character of Jo in Little Women was in part a self insert character based on this. So why don’t we hear about him as a trans man? Well, it’s just not convenient for most people to believe that a beloved book about girls becoming women was written by a man.

[renthony]

"Are you TMA or TME?"

Good question! I don't fucking know!

I'm intersex and nonbinary with visible tits and facial hair. I am neither transmasc nor transfemme. Baeddels have called me a "vaguely transmasculine butch-ish whatever theyfab" and terfs have called me a "stupid fucking tranny who will never be a woman." Doctors look at my natural body and call everything a symptom. A doctor once lowered his voice and apologized to me like someone had died when prescribing a blood hormone test, because the assumption was that I would be shocked and in mourning over my "condition."

Assumptions get made about what I want to do with my own anatomy. I get mistaken for a trans woman and a trans men by both cis and trans people. People have complemented me on the effects of both testosterone and estrogen based HRT, when I'm not on any form of HRT. Trans people act just as fucking weird about my body as cis people do.

I'm pretty sure I lose no matter what. I'm pretty sure my actual identity doesn't matter to anyone involved in trans discourse as long as they can feel superior to it and me.

TMA and TME are two sides of yet another false binary, and intersex people have repeatedly said this only to get ignored.

Am I TMA or TME?

I don't know, and I think a better question is, "why do you need to know in order to treat me with respect as a trans and intersex person?"

[taliabhattwrites]

I don't think there is a significant or notable number of people who believe transmascs are not oppressed.

I feel slightly insane just having to type this out, but this is rhetoric you inevitably come across if you discuss transfeminism on Tumblr.

The mainstream, cissexist understanding of transmasculine people is the Irreversible Damage narrative (one that's old enough to show up in Transsexual Empire as well) of transmascs as "misguided little girls", "tricked" into "mutilating themselves". It is a deliberately emasculating and transphobic narrative that very explicitly centers on oppression, even if the fevered imaginings misattribute the cause. As anyone who's dealt with the gatekeeping medical establishment knows, they are far from giving away HRT or even consults with both hands, and most transfems I know have a hard enough time convincing people to take DIY T advice, leave alone "tricking" anyone into top surgery.

Arguably, the misogyny that transmasculine folks experience is the defining narrative surrounding their existence, as transmasculinity is frequently and erroneously attributed to "tomboyish women" who resent their position in the patriarchy so much they seek to transition out of it. This rhetoric is an invisiblization of transmasculinity, constructed deliberately to preserve gendered verticality, for if it were possible to "gain status" under the sexed regime, its entire basis, its ideological naturalization, would fall apart.

Honestly, the actual discussions I see are centered around whether "transmisogyny" is a term that should apply to transmascs and transfems alike. While I understand the impetus for that discussion, I feel like the assertion that transmisogyny is a specific oppression that transfems experience for our perceived abandonment of the "male sex" is often conflated with the incorrect idea that we believe transmasculine people are not oppressed at all. This is not true, and we understand, rather acutely, that our society is entirely organized around reproductive exploitation. That is, in fact, the source of transfeminine disposability!

I know I'm someone who "just got here" and there is a history here that I'm not a part of, but so much of that history is speckled with hearsay and fabrication that I can't even attempt to make sense of it. All I know is that I, in 2024, have been called a revived medieval slur for effeminate men by people who attribute certain beliefs to me based on my being a trans woman who is also a feminist, and I simply do not hold those views, nor do I know anyone who sincerely does.

If you're going to attempt to discredit a transfeminist, or transfeminism in general, then please at least do us the courtesy of responding to things we actually say and have actually argued instead of ascribing to us phantom ideologies in a frankly conspiratorial fashion. I also implore people to pay attention to how transphobic rhetoric operates out in the wider world, how actual reactionaries talk about and think of trans people, instead of fixating so hard on internecine social media clique drama that one enters an alternate reality--a phantasm, as Judith Butler would put it.

Speaking of which--do y'all have any idea how overrepresented transmascs are in trans studies and queer theory? Can we like, stop and reckon with reality-as-it-is, instead of hallucinating a transfeminine hegemony where it doesn't exist? I'm aware a lot of their output isn't particularly explicative on the material realities of transmasculine oppression despite their prominence in the academy, but that is ... not the fault of trans women, who face extremely harsh epistemic injustice even in trans studies.

The actual issue is how invisiblized transmasculine oppression is and how the epistemicide that transmasculine people face manifests as a refusal to differentiate between the misogyny all women face, reproductive exploitation in particular, and the contours of violence, erasure, and oppression directed at specifically transmasculine people.

You will notice that is a society-wide problem, motivated by a desire to erase the possibilities of transmasculinity, to the point of not even being willing to name it. You will notice that I am quite familiar with how this works, and how it's completely compatible with a materialist transfeminist framework that analyzes how our oppression is--while distinct--interlinked and stems from the same root.

I sincerely hope that whoever needs to see this post sees it, and that something productive--more productive dialogue, at least--can arise from it.

[en8y]

[IMAGE ID: two horizontal flags with nine stripes. the middle stripe is twice as large as the rest of them, which are equally sized. the first flag has these top three colors: dark muted blue, muted blue, and pale blue. the second flag has these three top colors: black-pink, dark pink, and blue-purple. each flag has these bottom six stripes: medium cool blue, off-white, medium cool blue, light cool blue, nearly-white blue, and warm purple. END ID.]

transmascribe: a gender connected to being a transmasc(uline) scribe; this gender is connected to being transmasc, transmasc pride, transmasc aesthetics, writing aesthetics, and being scriptorian!

reapetransmasc: a gender connected to being a transmasc(uline) reaper; this gender is connected to being transmasc, transmasc pride, transmasc aesthetics, death aesthetics, grim reaper aesthetics, and DEiN genders!

@radiomogai @liom-archive @obscurian

[lycandrophile]

in 2024 i want to see more songs sung in t voices, more grown-out t scruff, more hairy tits and top surgery scars, more gay sex involving t dicks and pussies, more cutting each other’s hair when the hairdressers can’t get it right, more helping each other with t shots and sharing extra bottles of t gel, more passing down binders and post-surgery pillows like family heirlooms, more crackly laughs and excited voices that don’t know how loud they are now, more proudly showing off phallo scars like we show off top surgery scars, more teaching each other how to shave and tie a tie and all the other things our dads didn’t teach us, more sheer shirts over post-op chests, more skirts and short shorts on hairy legs, more moving the fuck out instead of living with transphobic parents, more breaking up with partners that wanted girlfriends not boyfriends, more pregnant dads, more twinks turned into otters and bears by t, more scars and binders on the beach, more romanticization of t dicks and meta dicks and phallo dicks, more rage and resistance against anyone who would try to rob us of our history or our ancestors, more pride in complex manhoods and queer masculinities, more getting louder every time someone tells us to shut up about the things that are important to us, more searching for transmasculinity in every piece of media and injecting it into anything that failed to consider us, more cuntboys and boygirls and transfags and butch dudes and transsexual men, more jumping headfirst into masculinizing transitions, more delighted reactions to realizing “holy shit i think i’m actually a guy”, more trans manhood and transmasculinity as force of nature and fundamental truth and fact of life that cannot under any circumstances be ignored.

[abtrusion]

wait where are all the trans guys

Historical-anthropological research, especially the work taking place before the 21st century or outside the West, tends to focus entirely on transfeminized groups. So when reading these works it’s pretty natural to ask — wait, where are all the trans guys? This is a reasonable question with a few clear answers; this post is something quick I can point people to.

The central condition of transfeminized groups' absorption into feminist activism has been to accept a kind of symmetry with select TME groups through the understanding of trans femininity as "gender variance." Under this framework, transfeminized groups' social position can be understood as a consequence of gender variance and some abstract violation of cis norms; this was proposed by people like Susan Stryker and Emi Koyama [1], among others, and continues to structure trans inclusion today. It also fails when considering several basic aspects of these groups:

Transfeminized groups are associated with hyperspecific labor practices, most frequently sex work, but also hair styling, drag, makeup artistry, acting, and other forms of 'gender work.'

Metropolitan transfeminized groups appear in the archive as highly clustered and active groups connected with, but usually intensely split from, the masculine men they fucked.

Transfeminized groups become a kind of 'third gender' on an epistemic level; they are Known to wider society before and after “coming out” in a way that USAmerican transmasculinity has only recently vaguely approached.

Transfeminized groups are heavily clustered in labor practice, social organization, and epistemic position, although this is not universal -- certain strains of USAmerican transfemininity have become a bit more labor-agnostic in the last two decades, not-so-coincidentally alongside more general currents of gender-labor liberation. The messy strains of trans male identity recovered from the archive and from current practice tend to lack labor, social, and epistemic coherence. As Aaron Devor notes in FTM, his 1997 history of FTM men, trans men in the 20th century tended to transition out of cities and into the countryside, finding low-profile places they could exist in. These practices, and the earlier "female husband" practices described by Jen Manion, relied on the labor-agnostic nature of transitioned manhood in order to disappear from public life. Transfeminized groups, on the other hand, are categorically restricted from the main form of economic life historically available to women -- marriage. Their labor practices are heavily constrained and have almost always revolved around some form of 'gender work:' as Susan Stryker put it, you need to get people to pay you for being a trans woman. Transmasculinity pushes away feminized restrictions on labor; trans femininity is labor.

Because transfeminized identities are so often labor-identities, and because their specific brand of 'gender work' and hormonal/silicone/surgical embodiment usually requires both specialized training and community support, nearly every metropolitan center in the world developed highly centralized transfeminized groups over the course of the 20th century [2]. As Ochoa notes, this visibility is partially due to epistemic visibility (everyone knows what a trans is), partially due to group structure (people work and train each other), and partially due to the selectively visible demands of finding clients. Fledglings come in with a way of being that is always already visible to society, but changing the body to match and learning how to fully enact and slowly contest the third-gender labor-identity they've been given takes a lot of community support.

So as labor-identities, transfeminized groups tend to a level of labor/community/epistemic coherence that has no clear counterpart. The news archives we have of trans men (as seen in Manion) position them as singular and easily absorbed back into the female gestalt; the cisgender feminist/gayguy/AIDS researchers that form the bulk of historical-anthropological work saw them as unnecessary to their grand theories of gender; the communities themselves have been materially fractured and, for the groups that rise out of lesbian-feminist activism, only partially committed to their own existence. The result of all this is that there is no clear equivalent to the "transfeminized groups" of Jules-Gill Peterson; there is no symmetry to trannydom, and while additional work to unearth trans manhood in the archive remains extremely valuable, sometimes the necessary level of label-coherence and social existence just isn't there.

[1] Stryker, "My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage," Emi Koyama, "The Transfeminist Manifesto" [2] As seen in Namaste, Invisible Lives, Prieur, "Mema's House, Mexico City," Kulick, "Travesti," Newton, "Mother Camp," Ochoa, "Queen for a Day," Hegarty, "The Made-Up State," and plenty more. Most of these works came out in the late 80s and 90s due to a combination of the feminist "third gender" craze, the burgeoning field of masculinity studies, and AIDS.