Here’s an overview: https://hexbear.net/post/7882202

It’s worth noting that TME is NOT synonymous with “men and trans men” or “men, trans men and nonbinary transmasculine people”, as TME also encompasses cis women. This article only reads as TMA / TME discourse because it has transmisogynist elements among its internalized transphobia and repeats classic arguments of transmasculine antifeminists.

A very common one is “being a man and being trans are not sperable for me, so when you attack any men as a group, you are being transphobic.” This is literally an argument i have seen before in a city-wide smear campaign from a transmasc person against a c4t lesbian couple they were stalking or in mods on a local discord dogpiling a trans woman who had just vented about repeated sexual harassment against her (if you follow this thread, you may notice that after a couple years of centering trans people in my day to day offline life, i have an unending list of real life examples of TME trans people acting as aggressive and abusive misogynists). The same bad faith argument is also very common among antifeminist TME people on tumblr, a site notorious for targeted harassment campaigns against trans women.

And it appears in a slightly watered down form in the linked article as well. We can see there that the author is making a very classic mistake of antifeminists and in fact bigots in general, being unable to seperate their individual experience from systemic issues. Of course a trans person will see their gender in most cases as inextricably linked with their transness. I do that as well. That does not mean i cannot view womanhood and transness outside of my inner life as dictinct, seperate issues, as there are very obviously both women who are not trans and trans people who are not women. And just as there are men who are not trans, there are trans people who are not men. Therefore, we can of course see masculinity and transness as seperate issues even when they feel personally inseperable for the majority of transmasculine people.

And when we do that, we see that there is massive structural opression against trans men, some of it in ways that are among trans people indeed unique to transmasculine experiences. For example, medical gatekeeping, a bane of trans existences everywhere, intersects heavily with another denial of bodily autonony that targets people with a uterus. This intersection is a driving force behind cultural-hegemonic and then legal attacks on gender affirming care that then affects trans people of all genders, just as the transmisogynist demonization of trans women that is used for bathroom panics and against self ID laws affects all trans people, not just TMA ones, when self ID laws are repealed or prevented from passing.

But what we can also safely say is that under patriarchy, there is no systemic attack on masculinity itself. There are attacks on people perceived as women regardless of their actual gender acting in ways that are nonconforming with womanhood, there are attacks on racialized men performing masculinity in ways that are stigmatized within their group even tho white men get away with them, there is a general policing of masc gender norms that affects all people perceived as men regardless of their actual gender. But none of these are attacks on masculinity itself, because masculinity is an ideal under patriarchy, not something that has to be controlled, coerced, exploited, abused and opressed like femininity.

As always, it is of utmost importance to sort out of we are discussing an issue on an individual, organizational or systemic level. We will not arrive at a proper analysis without it. And the article linked by OP fails at this, which is one reason why it arrives at faulty conclusions.