All of these guys tend to be younger, it seems to be a new trend cause we didn't have issues like this 10 years ago. They'll come in, talk only to other gay guys, and exclude women (incl trans women) from all conversations to the point it becomes very awkward. This has happened 3 times in the past 2 years or so. We had an event recently and we had a handful of trans people show up. I tried to talk to everyone to just say hi (I'm the organizer after all) and the guy just stared at me?? Then one of the sweetest trans ladies there talked to me about how she was trying to get contact details for people so we could, y'know, be a community, and the guy apparently told her that all of his chats and local groups for trans men were men only and that they had so many issues with trans women trying to make LGBT spaces all about them so they only let trans men in. She was just looking for people to hang out with! The lack of solidarity here was shocking to me.

Maybe it's some social media thing? Over compensation? Idfk. Shits getting weird.

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[–] 44 points 1 month ago

Its definitely some social media thing, men are not ok and that obviously includes trans men. Even 5 yrs ago or dudes were being weird and overcompensatory and there were alt right trans masc sorts like Kevin Garrah that had near cult-like gatherings on a lot of Reddit-adjacent spaces. As empoc I've found those dudes don't want me around neither, and won't listen to me. I've gotten kicked out of discords and groups just for being Chicano, nothing more.

The naive youth think because they pass and they're dudebros they're safe. Horseshit, no one is safe, and the right only sees one as a tool and will never treat nor see them as their authentic selves. Communities only thrive united, this is how they pull us apart to you know, do bad stuff to us, old playbook from the 70s.

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