Starting with public life: Trans men are not the focal point within anti-trans legislation or rhetoric and as an effect aren’t stigmatized to the same degree at all. Furthermore, transitioning to live life as a man is usually a big social boon cause general society is pretty sexist against women. If you are perceived as male you will often be more respected, be handed more opportunities, and be included in more spaces…
I think maybe it’s rooted in extant societal pressures/expectations that trans people involuntarily inherit after transitioning into their preferred category. Like all the sexism and unhealthy expectations that cis people endure don’t disappear when you transition, you just swap your old problems for new ones.
As for the private/intimate realm (Assuming HRT but no surgery): The inherent difference in AMAB and AFAB physiology provides trans women a greater degree of flexibility in positionality. Het-trans women without any surgery can experience affirming and enjoyable receptive sex due to the prostate (also estrogen makes bottoming easier and more enjoyable by rewiring erogenous zone and helping relax muscles)
Due to the unwanted attention created by trans porn and current anti-trans rhetoric, trans women are overwhelmingly more likely to be the recipients of sexual assault and/or violent hate crimes. Additionally transitioning to live life as a woman can make life more difficult because you are assuming the same challenges/burdens that your cis peers also face because society is sexist against women.
Transmen who are bottoms have to contend with the stigma and expectations of a partner potentially seeing them as “less of a man” cause of the role they are taking. Additionally, genital preference among cis-gay men is a major focal point. (Many gay men are comfortable sleeping with a pre-surgery trans woman but will not be with a trans-man under any circumstances cause they don’t like vagina).
Heterosexual trans men who would like to assume a penetrative role have the worst experience by far. Strap-on devices cannot provide meaningful stimulation as to even approach the experience of penetration. (The skin on skin contact possible through AMAB genitalia allows the insertive partner to be more respondent because they can actually “feel” what’s going on during the sex which leads to greater intimacy and experience of satisfaction).
Transfem bottom surgery is pretty straightforward from a practical standpoint. In a basic sense, there is just more tissue to work with during a vagioplasty. (It’s easier to carve a hole than it is to try and generate an entire d*cks worth of tissue out of thin air) during a phalloplasty, skin and fat must is usually sourced from foreign donor sites on a patients body such as the forearms.
As far as aesthetic outcomes for either case transfems come out on top again. The outside of a neovagina looks strikingly similar to a cis-woman’s vagina. The inside and inner workings of a neovagina are often where they fall short but that’s not really something your partner sees or likely cares about to a meaningful degree during receptive sex.
Bringing the discussion back to transmascs , a neophallus cannot get errect from arousal. Some individuals can opt for the installation of a pump and squeeze device to manually inflate the area. However manual inflators run the risk of infection(sepsis) and really really impractical in an actual bedroom setting.
Finally due to the necessity to source tissue from foreign sites on the body, the texture, sensitivity and appearance of a neophallus are often very bad. (Simply put, the tissue used to grow the new organ doesn’t all come from an erogenous zone so the final product is a little clunky)
Among other complications; there can be hair growth on the tip of the penis itself, there may be little to no sensitivity along the shaft of the neophallus, and finally scaring are always openly visible compared to a transfem neovagina where scaring can be hidden within the cavity.