Adding to this: I agree that we threaten their heterosexual identity, but we also CONFIRM it. The violence against us—including lethal violence—*is what confirms it.*
Even though individual men may partially perceive us as a type of man, we're still ultimately being responded to as a type of woman.
Even though individual men may partially perceive us as a type of man, we're still ultimately being responded to as a type of woman.
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It's because transmisogyny exists at a unique intersection of misogyny and homophobia, even if the man can dominate the woman, there's still the undertone of "it's actually a man" for them underneath, so their sense of heterosexuality remains threatened.
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