I've known cis people who got offended by the word "cis". They're all babies.

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And even in the very narrow scope that they focus on it still ignores that a trans woman growing up as a "boy" isn't going to have the socialization experiences as a cis boy.

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a lower class Black cis girl from Queens is going to have a vastly different socialization experience to an upper class white cis girl from London, for example. reducing all of socialization to a simple "male/female" binary is not only lacking nuance, it's just wrong. we cannot cede ground on this.

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I've said it before, but: you only need to take one single college sociology class to learn the "male/female socialization" stuff is bullshit. socialization is a lifelong process, not a single event, and is contingent on intersecting identities like race, class, and yes, gender including being trans

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absolutely 100% feds posting. I have the uncanny ability to attract whackadoos and get stuck in the wildest conversations (for instance the time a guy explained to me AT LENGTH why Yoda is a fallen angel trying to steal our water) but I've never had anyone pop out with fed points like that irl.

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