There's only 1 trans House rep.

Yes. Don't forget US House vs state houses

Also all but one of these are state reps and I don't even know how many of those there are in total.

Binary trans men are able to be "stealth" much easier because of how testosterone works. You hear anti-transmasc discourse in cis gay spaces because those men get sexual with men and some really dislike vulvas and vaginas.

If they aren't stealth, conservatives see that as a woman and thus a non-threat. They can dismiss them as "confused dykes" and proceed to misgender and/or ignore them. See also: non-binary transmascs.

Because testosterone works the way it does, trans women have more to do than "just" hormones and so theyre more easily targeted. Plus, conservatives see someone who actively rebuked all the power of masculinity to "choose" to be "weak" and rationalize they deserve the poor treatment for said weakness.

On top of all that, being trans and/or nonbinary threatens the cultural narrative that gender is fixed and innately impacts what you are permitted to do in life. This threatens patriarchy because if anyone can suddenly switch genders or opt out of binary segregation, it means admitting that gender roles are manufactured and thus losing a vector of control over people.

Editing to add: there are more trans women visible online because they were once welcomed as men online and this is still their home now that theyre women, as opposed to those who experienced the worst of the internet as women and learned quickly not to mention their gender.

I think you're on the right track. They're terrified of being attracted to someone with a dick (MtF w/ no bottom surgery). That's where the whole "biological woman" thing comes from, anyway. The hilarious part, for me, is that it's almost certainly happened to most of them at some point. They don't realize how many women are just extremely "passing" as a woman (I'm not trying to be bigoted, just using words they would say to illustrate the point). Like, trans women are women, and these chucklefucks are so in their own heads about homophobia that MtF scares the hell out of them.

The downvotes are wild. Children are socialized differently based on the gender they were assigned at birth - that's a fact.

Growing up being called "bossy" does hell on one's ability to speak out for one's self. That shit turned me into a doormat in my teens, and enabled people to take advantage of me both in my personal life and professional life well through my 20s. Society worked hard to try to make me small and quiet, to put up with crap instead of speaking out when things were wrong. It's a mess that I'm still in the process of untangling, and I have little doubt many AFAB have gone through the same thing.

Though with all that said, I'd like to hear directly from transmen about their experiences in this regard.

Absolutely. It is very delicate because any transperson is marginalized, yet you can still see patriarcal tendencies with transpeople. Transwomen tend to be relatively more visible and vocal than transmen who seem to get doubly invisiblized.

I feel like there is a risk of being labelled as transphobic to discuss this, which is pretty unfortunate because it is felt by some transmen (see communities of transmen excluding transwomen for them not to dominate discourse).

But 'trans-' (and 'cis-'!) is also a prefix. cf. "transnational", "transalpine", "transcranial", "transcode", etc. To be clear, I'm not saying we shouldn't insist on the space, but implying that it would otherwise be malformed or ungrammatical is a bad argument.

Cool!

Maybe there are but you don't know ?

There are a few attorneys: Shannon Mintner, Chase Strangio

You're still allowed to be obsessed with your own junk!

but this time with suffixed with “(good)”

Like a casual “hey girl, nice cock!”

Don't transwomen hate chasers?

of course, here you go!

Not if Doug Dimmadome Owner of the Dimmsdale Dimmadome is available

Wife is the same. She kept all her documents AGAB, and appropriately thinks of them as “wig papers.” She won't bother changing them because 1) she barely needs to 2) the state should be destroyed, 3) comrades know she’s fempres.
It's more sad we are being targeted even here in 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone 😭