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The original was posted on /r/truscum by /u/TrueContribution3415 on 2024-04-08 09:54:40.

Guess i’ll elaborate on this yeah. When you think about it, if being trans is about being another gender and being “transmasc” / “transfem” is considered only partially leaning towards masculinity/feminity, doesn’t anyone ever consider maybe tucute transmascs are literally just masculine girls and transfems are literally just feminine boys? ( Not including binary trans men and trans women. )

The big common issue I see here ( especially with trans mascs, as a binary trans man myself ) is that often times the only thing they change is their pronouns to “he/him”. Some of them might just shorten their hair but often times they just continue to present themselves as women without really trying. Some of them swear up and down that apparently by identifying as their assigned gender, female, they somehow can’t be masculine - but they also do not dream about necessarily being the opposite gender the full way or wanting to be born with male parts. Hell, some of them don’t even try to be masculine.

This just seems like a case of internalized misogyny, in my opinion. Controversial take but I’m pretty sure you can still wear baggy clothes and have short hair while being a girl. You can still act rowdy… While being a girl. And in my opinion nobody’s really stopping them from using “he/him” pronouns while still being a girl since there’s that one tucute belief where gender =/= pronouns anyways, so what’s stopping them? They literally don’t wish to be a man, they just wish to be equally treated as one, and they feel like being dubbed as ‘feminine’ ( aka. What women are often expected to be ) makes them inherently lesser.

That’s not being trans. That’s internalized misogyny.

And while we’re on the topic of this I’d also like to talk about supposed demiboys. The most common reason I see about people calling themselves demiboys is because “while they could gladly dub themselves as binary men, they feel a certain disconnect from true masculinity”. That just means that you may be a feminine binary trans man and may want to express that a bit more, and that’s okay, not everyone may want to hit all those super duper trad masc roles and that’s aight.

Another supposed reason for this is because they view their gender more as an “aesthetic” or how they want others to percieve them. The most common example I’ve been given is that they imagine themselves/want to be percieved as men with a more “androgynous” look/body type. ( Most common examples include characters from Houseki no Kuni or Satan from Devilman Crybaby. ) In reality, they could just be men who once again, may not fit into super trad masc roles and occasionally do “effeminate” things like having long hair and doing nails while still making an effort to transition. There are plenty of androgynous binary men out there which could lead them by example while realizing that does not make them any less of their gender.

tl;dr i don’t think transmasc and transfem are actual terms, they’re just either used for tucutes with internalized misogyny/misandry or binary transmen/transwomen who may be gnc but are in denial over it. feel free to add onto this civilly.