a transmasc manifesto

gender is an identity. gender is an expression. gender is how you look, how you act, how you're expected to act by others. gender is a role. gender is a position. gender is an imposition. gender is what the cisheteropatriarchy wants you to do, wants you to be—how it wants you to submit. it assigns it to you at birth, based on how you look, and from then on you're expected to keep up your act for the rest of your life. gender, like Judith Butler famously says, is a performance—but some of us don't follow the script. some of us won't follow the script.

and some of us aren't even satisfied with not following the script either. no, we want to burn the whole stage down. trans, not as in transition, but in transgression. transmasculinity—transgressing masculinity. i am not here to act like a man—i am here to ruin your gender. i am here to look like you without acting like how you want me to. i am here to destroy all unities among expression, emotion, interaction, domination, and submission which you hold sacred and essential to your role as creator and enforcer of the cisheteropatriarchy. and in my destruction, i will not only create myself, but create space for others to do the same to you and your enabling ilk.

agender isn't enough—i need to be antigender. i am not simply satisfied with removing myself from your system and finding community with others who have done the same. i will not be satisfied until your entire system of domination and exploitation of all who are not your gender is gone. gender is a conspiracy. gender exists to serve hierarchy. and i refuse to serve.

我是要來敗壞你的性別

跨男傾向的宣言

性別就是認同。性別就是表現。性別就是你的外表、你的行為、被人家認為你該有的行為。性別就是角色。性別就是定位。性別就是限定。性別就是順性別加異性戀父權制要你做的事、要你當的人—要你這樣順服。它在你一出生時就按照外表給指定，從此之後你也就是該保持角色繼續演下去。性別，跟朱迪斯·巴特勒說的一模一樣，就是表演—可是我們其中有某一些人不按照劇本去做。有些人不想要按照劇本去做。

而且我們其中有某一些人連有按照劇本的拒絕權都還不滿意。不，我們要的是把整個舞臺完全燒到殆盡。跨，不是性別跨越的跨，是跨越界限的跨。跨男傾向—跨越男性傾向的界限。我不是要來當男子漢—我是要來敗壞你的性別。我要跟你有一樣的外表但不要有你認為我該有的行為。我是要來毀滅你為了演順性別加異性戀父權制的創造者跟執行者角色必要崇拜性統一的表現、情緒、社交、宰制、順服。而在我毀滅的過程中，我不只會創造自己，還也會創造讓跟我同樣做的人把你跟縱容你同類的人作為目標的空間。

無性別就是不夠—我需要反性別。把自己移出你的系統再跟其他像我一樣做的人找出共同不能這樣就讓我輕易地滿足。直到你整個宰制跟剝削所有不是你性別的人的系統消失為止我才會滿意。性別是陰謀。性別存在就是為了要導致等級制度的服從。我就是不服。