If you missed it last night, here& #39;s my latest article, on fertility concern-trolling and how it reduces trans men to body parts in the name of protecting those body parts from, well, trans men. https://twitter.com/e_urq/status/1387506812937768965">https://twitter.com/e_urq/sta...
My editor asked for more quotes at one point, and I successfully begged off bc the examples were so vile I didn& #39;t want them in my piece.

One phrase I did quote, however, was "healthy breasts" which appears in basically every conservative op-ed of this type.
I despise the phrase "healthy breasts". It gives me the absolute willies to imagine a conservative anti-trans activist saying this combination of syllables with their lips and their tongues.
"Healthy breasts" is everything wrong with the transandrophobia distilled to two words.

See, conservatives don& #39;t really believe in the equality or agency of female-bodied people.

Which means it& #39;s easy for them to think of our bodies as the whole of our selves
To them we& #39;re not even people, we& #39;re breasts and baby-making bodies. We have no right to control our own destinies any more than a farm animal would.

Our bodies are our destinies, and our bodies say "wife" and "mom" and nothing else.
When people pretend trans men don& #39;t experience sexism, all I can do is laugh.

The sexism only steps up when someone from the lower sex-cast has the impudence to declare themselves a man. The insistence that we are and can only ever be our tits and our vaginas grows deafening.
I hate the word emasculating because it& #39;s a sexist concept, but it& #39;s hard to avoid when we& #39;re constantly told we& #39;re not good enough to be men. Too emotional, too flighty, too prone to "social contagion".

Ruining our "healthy breasts" for some fad. Don& #39;t know what& #39;s best for us.
It& #39;s wonderful to pass for cis male. But trans men are not "accepted" just bc we& #39;re seen as unthreatening.

Being unthreatening is itself sexism against us. Being unthreatening is what makes transphobes think they can control us and make us behave.
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