I’ve noticed a trend (at least in online spaces I’ve been in) that trans women are much more present and vocal about their experiences than trans men. Do you have any observations on that topic? I wonder if trans women are simply more numerous, or perhaps trans men have more reasons to not be so vocal, e.g., ingrained shyness etc.
I know that on Lemmy specifically the number of trans women is significantly higher than the number of trans men, iirc Tumblr Pinterest and bluesky are places that trans men tend to be more dominant.
There is also a point that there’s not much about men that women don’t already know compared to the VAST amount of things that men don’t know about women.
So when someone switches gender the transfems tend to have a lot more learning and will overshare their experiences to help prevent the struggle for the next transfems that come along.
though obviously that’s not to downplay the issues that trans men experience, there’s a lot of things that I thought were obvious that my transmasc friends had no idea about
I’ve noticed a trend (at least in online spaces I’ve been in) that trans women are much more present and vocal about their experiences than trans men. Do you have any observations on that topic? I wonder if trans women are simply more numerous, or perhaps trans men have more reasons to not be so vocal, e.g., ingrained shyness etc.
I know that on Lemmy specifically the number of trans women is significantly higher than the number of trans men, iirc Tumblr Pinterest and bluesky are places that trans men tend to be more dominant.
There is also a point that there’s not much about men that women don’t already know compared to the VAST amount of things that men don’t know about women.
So when someone switches gender the transfems tend to have a lot more learning and will overshare their experiences to help prevent the struggle for the next transfems that come along.
though obviously that’s not to downplay the issues that trans men experience, there’s a lot of things that I thought were obvious that my transmasc friends had no idea about