Anonymous
asked:
You honestly think that trans men take on cismale privilege? That would require that we live in a society completely and totally void of transphobia, which we don't quite yet, if you haven't noticed. How can anyone be this ignorant. I'm sure your companion and you will be glad to hear of the constant brutal murder of trans men. You know. For cathartic and political reasons.
captoring
answered:

the whole privilege/oppression duality is kinda hard to work with because of things like this, but trans men do have male privilege, which functions in ways both similar and different to the way cis men have privilege. this isn’t to negate the effects of transphobia they do experience (which, not to mention, do subside the more a man starts to pass, and trans men do have an easier time passing after some time into transition than trans women). my “companion”? i.e. girl who i reblogged a thing from once is a trans woman and i’m positive she is aware about the murder rate of trans people.

but yall for christ’s sake being oppressed on one account doesn’t deny the fact you can have privilege over another group of people. trans men both experience transphobia and are able to enforce misogyny, as they are men. calling out misogyny in a trans man doesn’t make you transphobic, same as calling out misogyny in gay men doesn’t make you homophobic or calling out racism in a trans person doesn’t make you transphobic.