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Genuinely curious why you started a “queer discourse” blog when you’ve only just heard of terms like transandrophobia. Like what are you hoping to accomplish with your blog and did you think you knew enough about the current “discourse” to have a whole blog dedicated about it or were you making the blog specifically to learn more about current queer theory/“discourse”?

I made this blog mostly (for the time being) to try to learn more about the problem with the term transandrophobia and why people seem to place it at odds with transmisogyny. I understand I could do this through my main but I dislike having confrontation or similar things there. Also it’d be nice to have things organized into one place.

I admit maybe my url isn’t the most accurate to what this blog is right now (the reason it’s “some flavor of” rather than a regular discourse blog) I came up with it on a whim with lack of a better url in mind. I do hope to eventually start/jump into discussions more, but right now I just want to learn what things mean and what the problems are. If you have any better suggestions for my blog name I’m all ears!

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Not having heard the term transandrophobia until relatively recently, I don't fully know why it's so controversial. From my limited understanding, it's intended to be a term to describe the struggles transmasc people face, but it seems that it has different connotations from that. Could someone please try to explain why it's a bad term?

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Hello, you can call me V. This is going to be my blog for discussing and trying to understand mainly queer issues, specifically the transmisogyny and anti-transmasculinity bit for now.

I want this to be a place for open, civil discussion. I don’t want arguing, accusations, or name calling. If I see any of that in response to something I’ve said, I will politely ask that they reword their message before continuing the conversation. Asks containing only hate will be deleted. If an ask is aggressive but seems to contain some kind of conversation starter, I will post the ask and request that the asker reword their message before engaging.

I normally wouldn’t do this, but for the sake of letting people understand how I may be uninformed on some topics, I am white, nonbinary, transmasculine, perisex, and physically abled.

I will do my best to not say anything hurtful.

I will do my best to never reblog a post about transmisogyny and derail it to be about anti-transmasculinity.

I will not purposely interact with/debate TERFs. While I believe it is possible for (some of) them to reform, that is not my goal with this blog and I don't want to expose people, especially transfems, to that kind of hate.

I will do my best to tag everything accordingly. Content warning tags will simply be #thing only. No // or cw. Just #thing

If you think I should add a tag somewhere please let me know, I love having organized tags

I will step away from this blog if I feel the need. I dislike blocking people, but will do so if I feel the need.

I will most likely not have active conversations. I prefer to read something, take my time to respond, and then step away for a little bit, rinse and repeat. This allows me to calm myself if I find something upsetting, and helps remove some of the anxiety I have surrounding confrontation, knowing I'm not under pressure to respond immediately.

Chances are, this blog will be inactive for weeks or even months at a time. I promise I'm still around on my main as I spend an unfortunate portion of my life on this hellsite, but this blog may be dormant for an indefinite time period.

Please remember I am a human being on the other side of the screen, with thoughts and emotions and a life just as deep and complex as yours.

And lastly, because I am only human, I am bound to make mistakes. If I do any of the things I said I wouldn’t, (politely) call me out on it and I will do what I can to fix the situation and offer apologies to anybody I’ve hurt.

If you’re sending an ask and have read this to the end, include a trans pride flag emoji somewhere in your message :) I know it’s not a sure fire way to ensure people have read it, but I think it’s a fun little “game.”

I will update this post as needed.

Tag list (WIP)

#Op - My original posts

#Asks - Self explanatory

#Anon - Asks that are anonymous

#Negativity - Anything containing negativity

#Positivity - Anything containing only positivity

#Questions - Posts containing non-rhetorical questions in the OP