VivIsAwesome22

Don't tell a trans woman that she "doesn't understand what it's like to grow up a girl". (erie)
submited 5 days ago by VivisAwesome22
So Iwant to dispel a myth about being trans: I've heard a lot of trans allies suggest that I didn't experience childhood
as a girl, which is patiently false and is marginalizing to trans women. My girlhood just looked a little different than it
did for other girls. The truth is that I was always a girl and I knew it from a very young age, but instead of having my
girlhood celebrated, it was actively repressed by everyone around me and turned into full biown self loathing. So next
time you want to suggest that a trans woman doesn't understand what it is to grow up as a girl in this culture, think
again, just as much as anyone we understand so deeply and painfully what it means to have grown up little girl with
the world forcing gender stereotypes on us.
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[-] -clare ZZ 29/f - Heroine Replacement Therapy 35 points 5 days ago.
We grew up as males with a female gender identity. Like yeah we experienced life much differently than cis boy
counterparts but we did not live a girls childhood is what that means. We were girls. That's not in question. But how
we experienced life until we transition is not the same.
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