fr so many people don’t realize it’s TERF vocab/rhetoric and also like… maybe it’s just me but i don’t get it. i would never describe my experience in those terms.

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as a trans woman i don't think "male socialization" describes my situation very accurately. i don't know that many trans men, but i'd be willing to bet that i've got much more of a connection to womanhood than they do.

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this. “male and female socialization based on agab” isn’t real. there’s only patriarchal socialization and *everyone* gets it and internalizes it differently. the average trans woman, even when raised as a boy, learns the same thing as cis women, not about *how to act* but about *how WOMEN are “supposed” to act* and will still internalize that because trans women are, get this, women.

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i don’t like the phrase “connection to womanhood” but i feel like it is somewhat of accurate for me because i don’t pass and there’s a shared experience in experiencing patriarchy and being much more aware of how patriarchy and transmisogyny works compared to a lot of cis ppl, particularly cis dudes.

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I lowk feel like I was socialized like a women tho. I obvs don’t go around saying that about anyone but myself but growing up as a girl gave me a different relationship to the patriarchy and I feel like it’s okay to talk about it.

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