Just about any place I look about transgender issues or folks, or any news I see about transgender stuff, seems to be almost entirely by or about binary trans women.
Yet the latest trans survey showed roughly equal numbers of trans masculine, non-binary, and trans feminine people. And my real-life experiences suggest that there are a lot of trans men and non-binary people out there.
I can understand why the haters focus on trans women -- their existence is a threat to Teh Patriarchy, in a way that trans men are not. But I also don't see them represented among posters on trans websites or as bloggers, or as authors or protagonists on story sites, or in other trans-friendly spaces: I can't help wondering why this is. Is it:
- They're out there, but I'm just looking in the wrong places. Is there a "dark web" for trans guys and enbies, not open to anybody else. Do I need to learn the secret handshakes?
- Trans men and enbies don't feel the need to write or talk about their lives or perspectives? (Guys are supposed to be strong and silent, ya know.)
- They don't feel welcome in the usual trans spaces; there are definitely on-line places which are ostensibly friendly to them, but where non-AMAB voices are routinely drowned out. Even in the F2M spaces here at Susans, the threads I've looked at contain mostly posts from trans femmes.
For that matter, even in trans femme spaces, the discussions seem skewed towards "I was always a woman" perspectives and trying to be 1000% feminine.
