I’m not sure exactly why it is to be honest. I’ve heard a few theories on why though.
Disclaimer: these are theories I have heard from people in the community, they are not my own.
There are just more transfem people on Reddit and reddit-like platforms due to there being more males on Reddit and thefore more transfem trans people:
One theory I’ve heard from people is that because Reddit is supposedly meant more for men than it is for women a larger majority of trans people there will be transfem. It seems like a plausible reason for why there are so many transfem posts but it does little to explain the hostile treatment of transmasc and enbies on its own.
There are more transfem people than transmasc + nonbinary:
Another theory I’ve heard is that there’s just more transfem people than transmasc and nonbinary. This one doesn’t seem likely because there isn’t much evidence to back it up besides the abundance of transfem posts in the community and also people claiming it’s better (that’s very subjective by the way, transmascs would say the same thing about being a man). On top of being unsubstantiated it also reeks of terf rhetoric since I’ve heard similar reasoning from them i.e. trying to say men will go extinct because they’ll all become women 🙄. I’ve also seen quite a few polls with numbers significantly higher in transmasc and nonbinary numbers so that kind of dismantles this one then and there.
Transfems are louder to combat more stronger transphobia
This theory basically says that it’s not that there are more or less of any group but rather that transfems are louder in order to combat the immense amount of more direct and/or violent transphobia that they are targeted with. I heard this one in a trans community in a discussion about violence towards trans women. In some ways it makes sense since often trans women are more often seen as predators and attacked for it though it doesn’t mean they experience more transphobia than anyone else. Transmascs still experience quite a lot of it but it’s more subtle and typically less violent (except in cases where they’re mistaken for trans women which sadly isn’t uncommon). This one also reeks of terf rhetoric to me since I’ve heard lots of them say that transfems are loud and proud so I can’t say for certain how accurate it actually is.
These are just a few theories I’ve heard people talk about when it comes to this phenomenon, there are also a few others but I’m not going to bring them up because they’re either straight up completely bigoted arguments or they don’t make any coherent sense whatsoever (sometimes both). Also it’s important to take theories like this with a grain of salt, they may have elements that are true to them but they also have issues with them as well which could lead you astray. I don’t think this isn’t an issue it definitely is and I know a lot of transmascs and nonbinaries who have experienced invalidation in some way related to this or have been told that we matter less. I’m not really sure how we could solve this problem though.
I think we can pretty safely say it’s not number 2. From what I found here transfem individuals slightly out number transmasc individuals and both out number ‘gender nonconforming’ individuals.
Of the 1.3 million adults who identify as transgender, 38.5% (515,200) are transgender women, 35.9% (480,000) are transgender men, and 25.6% (341,800) reported they are gender nonconforming
So more transfem individuals but not in the amount to explain the observed proportions in egg_irl.
Yeah I’m not super surprised, I figured their numbers were either equal or at least close to it. Even though there are slightly more trans women than trans men, it does make me wonder though why the sub was so overrun with them and why they try to be exclusionary to trans men (i.e. saying that being masculine is evil).
Also as a Side note, why is Gender Non-Conforming listed as trans there? Seems a bit weird since a Man assigned male at birth identifying as their assigned gender but choosing to dress as feminine doesn’t really seem to fit the trans label, not saying people can’t identify as trans if they choose to, it just seems a little strange in this case.
This is very true actually, really tired of people forcing binary gender stereotypes onto others. Even in supposedly safe spaces this happens. We really need to stop forcing gender assignment onto others and also stop forcing binary genders onto others who don’t conform to gender stereotypes, like saying that wearing [gendered clothing] makes you gay or an egg. It’s not cool.
Isn’t this meme format usually used with text that’s supposed to be absurd and over the top? Usually when I see this it’s with text that the author wouldn’t actually agree with, or at least not when taken to the extreme the meme implies. Maybe I just got lost in the layers of parody, but isn’t the format kind of undermining the point you’re trying to make here?
🤔 Umm… Could someone please explain this? I have no idea what this has to do with gender, or actually what folk punk is, I assume it’s like a mix of folk and punk music but I still don’t really know what that has to do with gender.
There was a YouTuber called Syrmor that did a video series called people of VR chat that had an individual that was a tall bird and talked about being a homeless teen and played concerts of folk punk music on an acoustic guitar, they eventually came out as trans.
Naw naw. This is absolutely more of an inexplicably universal experience for thing. Personally I think it has something to do with seeing ourselves in the vocal style.
I was thinking about this and getting a bit jelous of artists the other week. I was thinking about my favorite musician and they have had a career spanning decades and all these songs come from personal experiences and thoughts and its like they can listen to their songs and think on who they were as they made it in a way that is infinitely more than looking at pictures of your younger self in a photo album.
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