anti-transmasculinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæntiːtɹænzˌmæskjəˈlɪnɪti/
ipa: /ˌæntaɪ-/
Forms: form: antitransmasculinity
Etymology: From anti- + transmasculinity. Coined on Twitter in 2021 by the Black activist group Afrofuturist Abolitionists of the Americas, apparently to avoid implications of the component misandry in the earlier term transmisandry.
Senses: examples: text: It is the need to conserve *that* which goes into why even cis men are seen as "failed" if they are not economically affluent; it is the need to conserve that which goes into sexualized biases against men across orientations and genders---that goes into anti-transmasculinity
ref: 2021 November 7, Afrofuturist Abolitionists of the Americas (@AbolitionF_ists), Twitter, archived from the original on 09 Jul 2025:
text: being a non-binary man who's unpacking their sexuality, gender, and anti-transmasculinity is a wild ride.
ref: 2022 December 12, @neon-slime, Tumblr, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2025:
text: I will say this once because I'm tired of seeing stupid discourse: anti-transmasculinity is not about being treated bad because we clock as men, it's about being treated as stupid little girls because transphobes think we've been tricked into this.
ref: 2023 March 3, @spitblaze, Tumblr, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2025:
text: Very cool /s that misogyny and anti-transmasculinity goes under the radar under the guise of attacking "weird fetishising fangirls" or "straight white women". A lot of ppl only JUST noticed it, too, when prev they were watching videos like Mr. Sommerton's completely uncritically.
ref: 2023 December 7, Mouse (@adybpt), Twitter, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2025:
text: An aspect of anti-transmasculinity I just realized: So some transmascs do “pass” as “male” to cis people. However, despite this, many transmasc adults are perceived as being young or even underage.
ref: 2023 December 15, tamil trent lane (@nautilusnuzzler), Twitter, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2025:
text: I was made to answer for shortcomings of the space, both real and imagined. The accusations towards me spiraled into outright falsehoods quickly. Allegations of "harboring ex-TERFs," "anti-transmasculinity," and “Nazi sympathizing” were supported by decontextualized screenshots.
ref: 2025 April 25, Leah Hope Ajmani, Talia Bhatt, Michael Ann DeVito, “Moving Towards Epistemic Autonomy: A Paradigm Shift for Centering Participant Knowledge”, in CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, number 474, New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery, →DOI, page 6:
text: First, we introduce a comprehensive taxonomy of sentiment toward trans and nonbinary communities, grounded in sociological and gender studies frameworks. This taxonomy addresses critical gaps in prior frameworks by including underexamined subcategories such as transmisogyny, anti-transmasculinity, and exorsexism, enabling a detailed and intersectional understanding of trans-related sentiment.
ref: 2025 May 20, Maxyn Rose Leitner, Rebecca Dorn, Fred Morstatter, Kristina Lerman, “Characterizing Network Structure of Anti-Trans Actors on TikTok”, in Proceedings of the 17th ACM Web Science Conference 2025 (Websci '25), New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery, →DOI, pages 472–483:
synonyms: transmisandry
coordinate_terms: transmisogyny
glosses: Hatred of or contempt for trans men.