![It was weird for me to sit in a room full of dykes and watch them listen respectuflly while FTMs talked about wanting to cut off their tits. But when the handful of MTFs who had come to the worskhop dared to speak out, the hostility toward them was palpable. FTMs take male hormones so they can look as masculine as possible. They wear penile prostheses in their pants and crossdress. Most of them would have surgery to give themselves penises if they could afford it and if the surgery could create a fully-functional male sex organ. Why do these folks qualify as 'leather dykes' when MTFs don't? MTFs take female hormones, love their tits, often undergo painful surgery to create female genitals, and live full-time as females and as dykes. It makes absolutely no sense to me that FTMs were welcome at a [leather dyke conference] when MTFs were not. I think MTF dykes have earned the right to be part of my community. Pat Califia, "Who is my Sister?"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:awkrsu65rc42u6abvzrjwuck/bafkreifhazop7nbwkuidi4zmvd7zcowcwaaiswx3mc7ldpyp4skt6erowm@jpeg)
It was weird for me to sit in a room full of dykes and watch them listen respectuflly while FTMs talked about wanting to cut off their tits. But when the handful of MTFs who had come to the worskhop dared to speak out, the hostility toward them was palpable. FTMs take male hormones so they can look as masculine as possible. They wear penile prostheses in their pants and crossdress. Most of them would have surgery to give themselves penises if they could afford it and if the surgery could create a fully-functional male sex organ. Why do these folks qualify as 'leather dykes' when MTFs don't? MTFs take female hormones, love their tits, often undergo painful surgery to create female genitals, and live full-time as females and as dykes. It makes absolutely no sense to me that FTMs were welcome at a [leather dyke conference] when MTFs were not. I think MTF dykes have earned the right to be part of my community. Pat Califia, "Who is my Sister?"
Let's talk about the way transmascs and transfems have been treated in putatively feminist and, for lack of a better term, "female-centered" spaces.
Because I'm seeing a troubling trend of history being rewritten before our very eyes in order to prop up some rather questionable rhetoric.
