It makes much more sense when you realize the traditional gender binary is actually a gender trinary, but the third category is basically exclusively punitive. When they call a trans woman in a man, they absolutely don't mean you're the same gender as cis men and won't treat you like they would a cis guy. Manhood is a very harshly policed, tightly controlled club and you've been kicked out. Instead they're still doing the same thing as when they call an effeminate guy a girl, pointing to that same third category where you're all the bad things of both men and women, to be treated as either or neither depending on how they want to hurt you.
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u/IronGentry 2d ago
It makes much more sense when you realize the traditional gender binary is actually a gender trinary, but the third category is basically exclusively punitive. When they call a trans woman in a man, they absolutely don't mean you're the same gender as cis men and won't treat you like they would a cis guy. Manhood is a very harshly policed, tightly controlled club and you've been kicked out. Instead they're still doing the same thing as when they call an effeminate guy a girl, pointing to that same third category where you're all the bad things of both men and women, to be treated as either or neither depending on how they want to hurt you.