Jay Hulme agrees: ‘[Transphobes] obsess over our surgeries, our ages, and our presentations. The prospect of a trans man exercising his right to bodily autonomy horrifies them.’ Echoing Henry, Hulme says that a key tactic of transphobic feminist discourse is infantilizing trans men and body horror: They speak of trans men as ‘girls’ even when we’re well into our twenties, and even beyond … They speak of ‘testosterone poisoning’ (having normal male levels of testosterone in our bodies and maybe growing facial hair), of ‘mutilation’, of ‘hacking off healthy body tissue’ – they care more about
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