
As someone who fully supports trans people, the issue I have with the saying is that the experience of growing up as an amab trans woman is different than the experience of growing up as a girl. Not that girlhood is a monolith, but yeah. I recognize that trans people are not their biological sex, but it is fundamentally different than being cisgender, even if you fully medically transition.
and to be honest it’s not always just about fighting and arguing with people but being supportive and spending time thinking about and unpacking and abandoning internalized misogyny, patriarchal thinking, bio-essentialism, internalized racism and making spaces for women less centered around men because all of those things are what make these spaces less welcoming and define the culture of women’s spaces in more subtle ways that are still very toxic
Being cis isn’t a monolith either. You don’t know what our experiences were like just the same as you don’t know what it was like for anyone but yourself. It’s not a contest. It’s not a comparative. There’s also a lot of issue with the “biological sex” commentary but that’s for another conversation. All women are different, no matter how close any two may seem.
that’s the idea of “male socialization” which is pseudoscience used by TERFs. if you genuinely support trans people then I recommend listening to the others here. also binary sex is a construct as sex, in reality, is both bimodal and mutable. sex is extremely multi-faceted and medically transitioning trans people are one of many ways people defy the sexual binary.
99% of people in the US dont know their chromosomes btw, assigned sex has never been chromosomal. doctors just take tape measurer and say you’re one or the other if your genitals are above/below a certain length 😭 that’s it. they acknowledge it’s a complete guess too. assigned sex is such a joke, and it’s pure delusion to treat it like gospel when (again) the doctors that perform it ADMIT it’s inaccurate.