This research extends our understanding of trans masculinity in South Africa. Drawing on in-depth interviews with seven trans masculine-identified individuals, we analyze the discourses that trans masculine individuals draw on to make sense of their experiences of gender and their embodiment and performance of masculinity. There are three key findings. First, we found that trans masculine people deploy competing discourses of gender to make sense of their gender performativity. Second, participants drew on discourses of sexism, genderism, and transphobia to illustrate the complexity of constructing counter-normative masculine subject positions. Finally, while trans masculine individuals discursively positioned their masculinities as caring, their constructions of masculinity simultaneously contained complicity with dominant discourses about hegemonic masculinity. The findings highlight the diversity and complexity of masculine subject positions taken up by trans masculine individuals.

这项研究扩展了我们对南非反男性气质的理解。通过对七个跨性别男性的深入访谈，我们分析了跨性别男性所利用的话语，以了解他们的性别经历，男性化身和表现。有三个主要发现。首先，我们发现跨性别的男性会使用竞争性的性别话语来理解其性别表现。其次，参与者借鉴了性别歧视，性别歧视和仇外心理的话语，以说明构建反规范男性主题位置的复杂性。最后，当跨性别男性将他们的男性气概定位为关怀时，他们的男性气概同时包含与霸权男性气概的主流论述的共谋。这些发现凸显了跨男性群体所承担的男性主体职位的多样性和复杂性。