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Made the mistake of unmuting some of my trans-related keywords on twitter a few weeks ago and my tl instantly flooded with shit like this. Grim.

The ultimate reward for gender conformity as a cis woman is being the housewife to a man who jokes about how much he hates you while you pop out his third kid and scrub the skid marks off his boxers.

Obviously I can recognize the humor in fighting over who should be allowed to use “tdick”, but I just see it as another example of trans women being insufferable on this site. What more words could you want for your genitals?? You have girlcock, clit, dick, literally whatever the fuck you want and everyone will know what you’re talking about because the world revolves around you. Trans men just get bullshit terms like pussy and cunt. Let us have something that isn’t demeaning for once.

NOT bioessentialism: “Spending the first 15 to 30 years of your life in a body classed as female exposes you to coercion, violence, belittlement, restriction of freedom, medical abuse, and relatively limited education and employment options compared to those who spend those formative years as part of the male class” “People seen as a girls have been proven to be silenced and belittled when making contributions in school or other public settings, leading them to being less assertive in a way that continues to disadvantage them later in life, sometimes even if they transition” “The vast majority of violence and rape in the world is done by cis men, so it makes sense for cis women to feel less safe around cis men than other cis women” “People born in bodies belonging to what’s commonly referred to as the ‘female sex’ will often have poor health outcomes related to their anatomy being less studied, whether it’s their reproductive organs or even other ‘non-sexed’ parts of their anatomy, since most studies in medicine, transport, health & safety are done on bodies of the so-called ‘male-sex’ exclusively”

i don't understand the argument of "well, i wasn't [fe]male socialized because, when i didn't act like a Proper Boy/Girl, i got bullied/abused/mocked." like...yes? that is, inherently, socialization. if you were perceived to be male, but did not exhibit properly male behavior and were thus punished until you did, that is quite literally male socialization at work. so you were mocked until you displayed the male behavior that society expected of you? maybe we have a term for this, i'm not sure though.