Why

Why do we consider female-to-male transpeople (ftm or transmen) who complete their transition become "real" men, despite keeping their vagina, and heroes for a cause, representing transpeople, but consider male-to-female transpeople who complete their transtion less of a woman, even though they have a vagina?

I ask this because some of the most prominent transpeople are transmen who the public loves because they transitioned from being girls or women to men and expressed in the most sexist tone and tenor. Transmen such as Buck Angel (porn star), Loren Cameron (self-promoting "transgender" photographer), Ben Barres (Standford professor), etal.

They're treated better than transwomen. Even Ben Barres noted the sexism which arose when Joan Roughgarden, evolutionary biologist, transitioned and lost her credibility with the scientific community and her standing in the department. She was ostracized and Ben Barres gained in respect as a man.

And we expect these and other transmen will know what it's like to be a tranwomen? They can speak about the internal frustration in the childhood and work with their transition, but they rarely speak about society's view that they got better and transwomen got worse.

Yeah, really. A transwomen loses credibility and respect and transmen gain credibility and respect. Yet it's the same thing, transition from one gender to another. Almost all transmen pass after a short transition, testosterone is a powerful hormone to lower the voice, grow facial and body hair, and grow muscles.

Only some transwomen pass, and mostly either being young and hormones work better on their body and faces to become at least androgynous but mostly female, or from considerable cosmetic surgery, usually facial feminiation surgery, but most range from mostly passable to not passable as the face, body and voice are giveaways.

You can't undo the effects of male genes once past your late 20's so transitioning after that has issues the transwomen has to face. Some do it successfully because they have the money for the surgeries. Most don't have the money and live with the reality.

And this is the crux of the issue, their visibility, but there is another factor, society's perception. Transmen don't get put in to degrading boxes of identity. They're treated as men and that's the end of it. Transwomen are treated not just differently but mistakenly too.

Transwomen are seen and treated as drag queens, crossdressers, transvestites, sex or porn workers - some are for the money for their transition, and the always "men in dresses" class. Rarely are they seen and treated as who they are, just regular and normal people.

When was the last time you read a newsstory about the rape and/or murder of a transman? But transwomen are frequently raped and often beaten or murdered. In many states that's a lesser crime than the rape of a woman.

Even the public and celebrity ones never gain status as "real" women, always treated with the adjective "transgender" to ensure their history and their status isn't like other women. And the rest have to keep their past hidden from all but the few people in their life, and of course their employers.

And that's the issue, transmen lose their identity as transgender once they transition, and only have to reveal it to loved ones. Transwomen never lose their identity, it follows them throughout the rest of the life, in private and more so in public.

Sexism and transphobia is alive and well in the public view of transwomen, but not transmen. Why, beside the obvious reasons, do we accept it and tolerate it? And why should we accept and tolerate transmen as representing transwomen?