Just as homophobia is rooted in misogyny—anything "feminine" is weak and terrible in men, and women are meant to exist as objects for male pleasure—transphobia is explicitly meant to uphold the patriarchal order. As Alok Menon describes, enforcers of gender norms historically rely on principles of colonization, separating the "civilized" from "savages." Indigenous people of Turtle Island might have bare chests, wear jewelry, lack the explicitly gendered garments of their colonizers.