Tag: transphobia /

luckystrabismus:

bc that one post about attachment to womanhood is still hurting people’s feelings, let’s keep talking about it.

radical feminist notions of gender socialization correctly frame it as a traumatizing process. a contradiction arises, in that case, when they assign positive moral traits to female socialization (and femininity by extension) because, much like society in general, they believe that an ideally traumatized woman is able to access moral high grounds that other people cannot. “i was socialized female” becomes an admission of guaranteed prosociality, a set of traits that are only ever harmful because they are at risk of exploitation via external forces.

this is why many radical feminists view trans men as safer & more politically enlightened than trans women – because of their proximity (imagined or otherwise) to femaleness, to daintiness, to softness and benevolence. “male socialization” is synonymous with antisociality, and becomes lobbied at trans women as a whole when individual trans women do things that radical feminists deem “unwomanly,” from having controversial political opinions to committing violent crime. the gender socialization model becomes a way to moralize sex assignment by prescriptively linking particular experiences of trauma to particular personality outcomes. it is no longer a theoretical framework meant to honestly and meticulously analyze how children become gendered subjects. it is now used to reproduce the very gender roles that proponents of the framework claim to be against.

buzzing3starhotel:

this is an observation, + probs not an original 1, of a cis lesbian but: so much of feminist thought (on lesbianism in particular) is based in a social analysis of sex + encourages self examination of how we’ve been conditioned 2 perceive sex n human bodies + that’s like…accepted that’s a categorically accepted + endorsed feminist discussion. but as soon as a trans lesbian extends it 2 like ‘hey maybe transphobia/cissexism also harmfully influences how we approach sex’ everyone jst performs victimhood + accuses them of being predatory + manipulative + having ulterior motives + its so fucking transparent. acting like challenging the institution of sex is new. how are u gonna reblog audre lorde quotes abt eroticism but then literally compare a trans woman calling out cisnormative attitudes 2wards sex to conversion therapy. its shitty regardless but the element of blatant hypocrisy is like especially astounding

softtrade:

Just got off the phone w a psychologist I’m gonna meet for a surgery letter who was telling me abt how she thinks the entire process of needing letters is bad and she said “I’m a lesbian and if I had to get letter from a PhD to be a lesbian I would lose it”