Trans men are men.
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2024
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Can't tell if you are trying to be forcefully post-gender or trans-exclusionary.
Gender is arbitrary, being conceived in passing by ancient society noticing the difference in hardware without nuance, which was later used as a rhetorical tool for subjugating women and 'deviants' (those who didn't fit neatly within the binary). Because of this subjugative function, it began being strictly enforced, and we still see that strictness in society today.
Modern attempts at sorting gender have been a failure, consistently failing to actually cleanly sort men from women in a clean binary.
Eventually there will come a time where trans can be omitted from conversation, but that is not now, due to the danger omitting it poses for trans individuals from unadjusted individuals. The strict gender binary must be dismantled first.