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"I think people who weren't born with a penis are inferior and therefore can't really be trans and therefore aren't oppressed."

“Tme’s” chose labels for fun” ???? okay first. They’re totally talking about cis men and cis women totallyyyy totallyyyyyy tme totally isn’t just a word for trans men

Hart was on testosterone, legally changed his name, and had gotten a hysterectomy (that was described as "unfortunate" by the Right to Privacy gay and lesbian political action committee), making him the first documented trans man to transition in the USA, yet he was characterized as a lesbian woman because cis gays and lesbians had the nerve (when do they NOT have the nerve, dare I say) to think they had the right to "honor [his] life as a woman" by having fundraiser dinners with his deadname attached to them, having college lectures where they talked about him as a lesbian hero, and using she pronouns for him until 2000. The USAmerican trans community, including trans activist Lou Sullivan, had to fight to defend Hart's identity and to have his manhood recognized by the wider community by protesting these lectures and dinners and having a conversation with the Portland chapter of the Lesbian Avengers association, which ended up having a favorable response and joining the trans community in the battle.

I want to end this by reporting the words of Candice Hellen Brown, a trans woman from Portland who wrote a letter to Just Out magazine in 1994 defending Hart's transness:

The Right to Privacy Political Action Committee in Oregon has a big fundraiser every year that is called the [deadname] Hart Dinner. When asked if I am going, I indignantly answer, "Not until they stop using the wrong name and gender for one of our heroes!" His name is Alan [. . .] He never wavered from his identity as a man, and upon his death, his widow continued to insist that he was a man. Why would such a straight man be called a lesbian by the gay community when today we would certainly call him a female-to-male transsexual? [. . .] He was transsexual or, at least, a transgenderist - a true pioneer. One who is seen as a hero by today's transsexual community. Please don't let him be taken away from us by allowing his old name to be used as though it were a badge of honor.

and then you grow up to be a trans man and people will say to you “oh i thought you wanted to be a man, that means you have to put up with [abusive behavior]”

Then realizing that is exactly how I felt before transitioning when I was in misogynistic spaces

>pre transition, he was widely considered a woman

>if he remained “cis” he would be a woman

>trans men are men because they are trans

>trans men are trans because they are men

>if trans man was not trans, he would not be man

>if trans man was not man, he would not be trans

> socialization theory is bioessentialist!

No, its the opposite, nature vs nurture. It states that gender roles and expectations are socially imposed, not biological or innate.

> socialization theory implies all people were raised exactly the same way with no nuance!

No, the fact that socialization varies based on time, place, culture, etc is key to the framework

> Socialization theory implies that people can never unlearn the roles they were forced into!

No, people are constantly being socialized 24/7 and socialization changes and evolves over time. One can learn to question or resist socialization

> I can't have been male / female socialized because I was punished for not fitting into those gender roles!

Yes, the punishment of gender nonconformity is a key part of socialization. Enforcing gender roles is like the whole point

> I can't have been male / female socialized because it traumatized me!

Yeah, socialization is often traumatic.

> I can't have been male/ female socialized because everyone could secretly detect my innate male / female essence!

This is unfalsifiable because the concept of a gendered soul or essence is a spiritual / metaphysical belief, but even if that were the case - again, punishing people who don't conform is the whole point. That's still socialization

> I can't have been socialized because I resisted all socialization by being trans / queer / marginalized!