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There's a really shitty sort of cultural gaslighting going on when you tell trans women we can't overcome our socialization.
Um.
No one socialized me to taking Estradiol twice a day thanks. The opposite thing happened.
Overcoming socialization is what we do.
Um.
No one socialized me to taking Estradiol twice a day thanks. The opposite thing happened.
Overcoming socialization is what we do.
Like...
The idea that trans women are incapable of transcending any training (trauma) they might have gone through in going through an ostensibly male childhood is like...
Just a few steps off from saying that we were also socialized TO BE trans women.
The idea that trans women are incapable of transcending any training (trauma) they might have gone through in going through an ostensibly male childhood is like...
Just a few steps off from saying that we were also socialized TO BE trans women.
Which is just so so close to the GC conspiracy theory that someone is out there "transing kids."
It's a very short walk from historical homophobic nonsense like "gay men are gay because they had an overly close relationship with their mothers."
It's a very short walk from historical homophobic nonsense like "gay men are gay because they had an overly close relationship with their mothers."
Because, again, if our "socialization" is just so deeply ingrained that we can't overcome it in the least, then what am I doing taking feminizing hormones unless I was also socialized to that?
