Broke: trans men and butches are two sides of the same coin
Woke: gay manhood and gay womanhood are two sides of the same coin
Like, the former is a t**f style take on gender abolition where we treat “biological sex” as some profound truth, the latter is actual gender abolition informed by the fluidity of the trans experience
i feel like this speaks to my experience? i used to be terrified of the idea of being in a relationship with a man or having sex with men because of heteronormativity told me that loving men and being a woman are the same (i am transmasculine.) so i identified as a lesbian for like six years. AS SOON as i realized i am not a woman and never was, i also realized i like men. how do you go from being a wlw to mlm in .0002 seconds? because heteronormativity tells you that loving women and manhood are the same, and that loving men and womanhood are the same. so as an egg, not dating men was the only thing that made me feel free from expectations of womanhood. but now that i know i’m not a woman, i know that loving men cannot somehow turn me into one.
tldr before realizing i was a trans mlm, identifying as a wlw was not a step further away from my truth, but a step closer, because gay men and gay women have way more in common with each other than lesbians and straight men (or gay men and straight women) ever could
^^^^This is a great addition and yeah, also a common experience among trans women and trans men
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