Meanings
alternative antitransmasculinity
- neologismuncountableOppression, discrimination, or bigotry against trans men.
being a non-binary man who's unpacking their sexuality, gender, and anti-transmasculinity is a wild ride.
2022 December 12, @neon-slime, Tumblr, archived from the original on 02 Aug 20255 more examples
It is the need to conserve *that* which goes into why even cis men are seen as "failed" if they are not economically affluent; it is the need to conserve that which goes into sexualized biases against men across orientations and genders---that goes into anti-transmasculinity
2021 November 7, Afrofuturist Abolitionists of the Americas (@AbolitionF_ists), Twitter, archived from the original on 09 Jul 2025I will say this once because I'm tired of seeing stupid discourse: anti-transmasculinity is not about being treated bad because we clock as men, it's about being treated as stupid little girls because transphobes think we've been tricked into this.
2023 March 3, @spitblaze, Tumblr, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2025Very cool /s that misogyny and anti-transmasculinity goes under the radar under the guise of attacking "weird fetishising fangirls" or "straight white women". A lot of ppl only JUST noticed it, too, when prev they were watching videos like Mr. Sommerton's completely uncritically.
2023 December 7, Mouse (@adybpt), Twitter, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2025An aspect of anti-transmasculinity I just realized: So some transmascs do “pass” as “male” to cis people. However, despite this, many transmasc adults are perceived as being young or even underage.
2023 December 15, tamil trent lane (@nautilusnuzzler), Twitter, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2025I was made to answer for shortcomings of the space, both real and imagined. The accusations towards me spiraled into outright falsehoods quickly. Allegations of "harboring ex-TERFs," "anti-transmasculinity," and “Nazi sympathizing” were supported by decontextualized screenshots.
2025 April 25, Leah Hope Ajmani, Talia Bhatt, Michael Ann DeVito, “Moving Towards Epistemic Autonomy: A Paradigm Shift for Centering Participant Knowledge”, in CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, number 474, New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery, →DOI, page 6Synonyms: transmisandry
Synonyms & antonyms
nounOppression, discrimination, or bigotry against trans men.
Origin
From anti- + transmasculinity. Coined on Twitter in 2021 by the Black activist group Afrofuturist Abolitionists of the Americas, apparently to avoid implications of the component misandry in the earlier term transmisandry.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
anti-transmasculinity. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anti-transmasculinity
“anti-transmasculinity.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anti-transmasculinity. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “anti-transmasculinity,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anti-transmasculinity.
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