But even some progressive gay white men say they feel alienated from a movement they see becoming more radical, particularly online, where the tenor of conversation is often uncivil.

Hot take: I’m honestly, vocally sick of settler-gay men who demand that you handle them with kid gloves when their entire existence within the community is an existence blanketed in microaggression at best, when they’re not being outright full-on macroaggressive about someone that ‘doesn’t fit their “preference”’; and I’m genuinely glad people are starting to talk about it.

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    Yeah, it’s the perfect example of transmysogyny. Women already suffer from being seen as “difficult and bossy” and “overly emotional and melodramatic” where a man showing the exact same behavior would be viewed as “assertive” and “strong-willed”. As a transfem, this gets compounded by our womanhood being doubted and made conditional in the first place.