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.
I did not spend like 2 years of my life being sexually harassed by cis women in fandom because I was the only trans guy they knew and they wanted to use me as a way to ‘accurately’ write about the genitals of trans men just for people to act like the way that cis dominated fandoms treat trans men is good.
