Yaoiboypussy

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Next person to bring up how trans men have a lot of fics on ao3 as a talking point as to why ‘cis people accept trans men more’ is getting punched.
Like let’s put our thinking caps on. Is the fetish porn of trans men on ao3 really a sign that cis people in fandom ‘accept’ trans men or is it a sign that they infantlize and fetishize trans men?
I need to find the article again but a trans women did an amazing break down of the way cis women in fanfic spaces demonize + dehumanize trans women and infantize + sexualize trans men and how that imapacts trans people in fandom spaces.


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No but seriously how do people use "Archive Of Our Own the Fanfiction and Porn Website For Mostly Chronically-Online Gay Teenagers and Young Adults" as reflective of how the cisnormative mainstream society thinks/actually treats trans people, and not see how ridiculous that is? Like are government legislators or cops or people with any significant power or control over how trans people treated actually reading, let alone basing their political takes, off of T-Boy Smut Fics? AO3 authors reflect a very, very small percentage of the population, and generally its people in a very limited age range, who have the time/means to spend a lot of time online, who already generally accepts LGBT people to an extent. Not indicative in the slightest of how cis people en masse view or treat trans men (and like you pointed out, the small percent of the population that are AO3 authors also don't treat trans men well!!!) I Feel Like I'm Losing My Mind

Also important to note I think that a lot of cisgender fic writers still essentially see trans men as women (whether subconciously or not, whether they admit it or not) & write trans male characters as they'd write cishet female characters. A lot of these fics are basically just Straight Smut with the pronouns swapped. And saying that there are a lot of women in porn would never be taken seriously as evidence that women are treated well in society or whatever.