Transmen and Women's Colleges

There are consequences to being a man, there are legalities in place that even under patriarchal regimes restrict men (rightly so) from certain private areas and activities. Men can and have been for instance forcefully removed from the public ladies room, men legally are not allowed in say the locker/shower area of your local gyms. Men cannot legally enter women's fitting rooms in any clothing store, male store clerks included. Men cannot join girls/women's sports teams, amateur or professional. Nor can men apply/get accepted into women's colleges, that is until recently!

Along with the creation and eradication of Lesbian Studies, the creation and now near extinction of Women's Studies, academia in its professored infinite PC wisdom have seen fit to usher in, sanction and promote Queer Studies; a radioactive dirty bomb that has blown wide open a loophole allowing men the right to enter in, take up space and residence in women's colleges/dorm-rooms and other private women's college spaces.

So how the hell has academia's illicit marriage to Queer Studies blown open the once female only doors to women's schools to men? By the simple addition of the prefix "trans" to that of man, as in "transman".  Transmen are female transgenders/transsexuals. These are women who have chosen to opt out of their womanhood through the use of powerful male hormones, various surgeries and legally, so that for all intents and purposes, function as men.

Some transmen will purposely and with detailed calculation, undergo their transition AFTER they have applied and are ACCEPTED into women's colleges (see article below for example) utilizing/exploiting their (hated) female biology, while others apply openly as transmen. If/when problems arise regarding transmen at women's schools, such as being asked to leave or being rejected because they are now men, transmen will threaten the authorities of the womens school with being "transphobic"(HUGE academic fear), then solicit help from the "queer rights" groups on campus, which now due to the legitimacy of Queer Studies, most major and many minor colleges have. Thus far academic authorities have coward to these types of threats and have/are now accommodating transmen in womens schools.

I've established how men are gaining entree into womens colleges, lets discuss then shall we some of the complications/consequences (or lack thereof) of this recent phenomena? The first and most glaringly obvious consequence is the lack of respect and basic awareness these men have in their explicit penetration of women's colleges spaces both public and private! In all of the extensive "trans" literature I have read from early 20th century to present, the overwhelming consensus coming from both transmen AND transmale professionals IS that once on testosterone for a period of time there is virtually little difference between transmen and biological men. As a biological woman, I must beg to differ with that claim. The equal distribution of the potent male hormone testosterone into a female body (a body designed to naturally produce only trace amounts of "T") to that of a similar weight/age biological male (a body created and designed for regular production of "T") will not only be different but react differently to that powerful hormone, especially around issues of anger, violence and sexual urges.

There are far too many historical proofs dating back to cave drawings that solidify the corrosive explosive combination of male biology with male privilege that has and continues to hold women in a vice of sexism, sexual objectification, violence and rape. A consequence of this is in the US alone one in four girls will REPORT a college rape, note I said report. It is suspected that the number is quite higher, doubled, perhaps tripled!

So what happens to an adult female mind and body that begins experiencing large doses of male hormones it isnt biologically designed for and a new found male privilege/expectation once those hormones take effect within the comfort of an all womens school? These are some of the changes listed on most medical sites dealing with transmale patients:

Lower, or change your voice, cause body hair to grow on your thighs, abdomen, chest, back, and arms, cause facial hair to grow, cause hair loss and, possibly, complete baldness, cause your Adam’s apple and bones in your face to thicken and look more "masculine", cause your clitoris to become larger, cause your skin to become coarser, decrease of fat in breasts, buttocks and thighs and increase of fat in abdomen, make it easier to build muscle, increase your sex drive, weight gain, stop your period, scent of body odors and urine change, initial effects of testosterone may take several months.

So if biological (testosterone producing) males who were born with their biological male bodies designed to function with testosterone, are historically known for a propensity for violence, wars, rape and other vileness's perpetuated against women, what kinds of behaviors can we expect from a body system NOT designed for mega doses of testosterone within an all female confine? Are all men violent, do all men rape? Of course not, BUT all males are sexist to degrees, sexually objectify the female body to degrees (some men to the degree that some women feel raped with male eyes), utilize their male privilege for personal gain to degrees. So just as I do not think all men are violent rapists, I do not believe all transmen are violent or rapists. But I do believe high doses of "T" into a female body can open the door (where a door previously never existed) to the possibility of sexism, violence and rape of women.

Out of the reported cases where we know a transman was involved in the physical assault/rape/murder of a female victim the crime usually had occurred within the first few years of transition. That is not to say that after those first few years of adjusting to regular doses of potent male hormones, transmen in general are unlikely to commit a violent act against a female (if the woman who transitions has anger/violent issues before transition, she will likely have them to a greater degree once she begins injecting "T").Given that the most difficult aspects of transition are the first years where the mind/body is struggling to adjust to high doses of testosterone, a mega mood altering drug, given more and more transmen are transitioning once away at college, taking into account along with the drastic night and day chemical changes taking place within the mind/body of the transman there is also the social adjustments of being away from home for the first time, some job responsibilities and school responsibilities. Anyone in or on even the periphery of the trans community has heard over and over and over again from transmen themselves that they are quicker to temper, irritable and high increase of sexual urges/obsessions once they begin injecting "T".

Should young women be subjected to an individual dealing with these types of drastic physical and mental personality changes in private women only areas such as a woman's college? Should young women just away from home themselves for the first time be forced to share a dorm room with for all intents and purposes (per the transmale community) looks, smells, behaves and is just like any other man? Especially given the rape culture women must endure every second outside of private womens spaces? See this is the thing that troubles me as a Butch woman most, perhaps trouble is the wrong word, hurts me as a Butch woman with regard to entering public ladies rooms. While there is a definite shame as well as annoyance to be mistaken for a "man" in the ladies, the thing that hurts is that look. That look in a woman's eyes when she first looks at me in the ladies, and as a woman I know that look of fear, it is the fear of rape. I love being a Butch woman, I truly do, but I HATE that as a Butch woman I can and do cause women the fear of rape. This is my greatest anger about Butch invisibility, because were we visible, REALLY seen, I/we would not produce rape fears when all we wish to do is go to the damn loo. There are clear female markers that if you look beyond the short hair, or male clothing (male clothing because no one yet has seen fit to start a Butch line of clothing-hint hint), that signify yes, we Butches are female. Sometimes that's all it takes, the second once over for women to realize  we are in fact women too, but what happens when every signifier screams male no matter how many once overs are taken?

What happens when a young woman is asleep in her dorm room and her new transmale roommate comes home in the middle of the night? When she smells a male, sees the clear outline of a male facial hair included, in her room, what is her first feeling, her body's first reaction (even though intellectually she knows she is rooming with a transman)? The clear fear of rape! Women's Colleges are not four year safety nests for transmen to explore their new identities, they are learning grounds for young women both social and academic. There is no shortage of co-ed higher ed schools, therefore no reason other than pure sick selfishness for transmen to be applying and gaining entrance (at the expense of women) into women’s college campuses. These obviously scared transmen should be kicked out of the women’s college campus nest so that they can work on adjusting and developing into the "men" they have chosen to be, rather than playing at being a man while remaining a scare little girl hiding under mommy's skirt.


Here is just such a case of a transman on a female campus....
There are many such articles floating around out there similar to this one if you are interested in reading more.
About this particular article, make note of the misogyny towards the "feminine" girls and the single minded selfishness of Rey period.

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