One of the unique features of the Russian queer community is that trans men have seemingly outnumbered trans women for its entire history. There is a narrative in medical historiography of transness that trans women used to predominate and it was only recently that transmasc individuals appeared - ThreadSky

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franfine1917.bsky.social • 6 hours ago

One of the unique features of the Russian queer community is that trans men have seemingly outnumbered trans women for its entire history. There is a narrative in medical historiography of transness that trans women used to predominate and it was only recently that transmasc individuals appeared

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franfine1917.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Now I dispute this somewhat, as tracking accurate information on the number of trans people especially in the past is exceptionally difficult, but it is true that while western surgical centers in the 1990s saw a preponderance of trans women, in Russia the number of trans men greatly exceeded

franfine1917.bsky.social•6 hours ago

the number of trans women seeking surgery at centers in Moscow

franfine1917.bsky.social•6 hours ago

This produced a bit of a "problem" for the nascent Russian lesbian community, which found itself populated by a mix of male-identifying and female-identifying people. There was even at least one amab trans lesbian in Moscow who appears regularly in sources

franfine1917.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Olga Krauze, in an interview with Argumenty i Fakty, decried mannish lesbians as “awful,” and said that attempting to change one’s sex had “disastrous” consequences, that these transsexuals endured lonely fates as their partners abandoned them.

franfine1917.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Her arguments included the assertion that sexual reassignment is just a cosmetic surgery, patients are incapable of orgasm afterward, and that they must then take artificial hormones for the rest of their lives.

franfine1917.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Despite her revulsion toward masculine women, Krauze pleads that if one’s “infantile complexes” force them to behave as a man, that they should simply dress the part but not “mutilate” themselves. She concludes that most transsexuals only get surgery to officially register their marriages to women.

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