To get a good idea of how things are here, just look at women the same way you look at small children; they're weak, vulnerable, and need to be protected. Sometimes they even need to be told what to do for their own good. If there's a perceived threat, particularly to white women, the rednecks who consider themselves to be knights in shining armor will do whatever they have to in order to protect them. That group includes members of the police, legislature, etc.; they're everywhere, all the way up to the highest echelons of power.
To be trans-feminine is to threaten not just the hyper-masculine identity of the Southern Male (and sexuality if you're attractive), but to be a threat to the innocent, fragile women.
Being trans-masculine is like a kid playing pretend dress-up; it will make some of the men uncomfortable, but they'd never admit to it because to do so would be weak. They would be threatened by what they consider to be a female, which is laughable in their eyes.
At least that's what I see. I used to think NC was a lot more progressive than all this, but I see an overwhelming amount of regressive mindset here these days. A lot of seemingly decent, reasonable people start espousing some really, really wrong-headed ideas if you probe them enough on politics or gender issues and stuff.
There are a lot of really awesome people too, but they're not the ones in charge.
