Yes, perhaps, but I think too much emphasis is placed on such socialization, and it's so often used as an excuse to marginalize trans women. I maintain that I was neither socialized male or female. I believe trans people internalize alot of different messages, are often treated different socially (if they're viewed as gender-variant as kids), and usually do not identify with their assigned sex anyway.
I just think it's an oversimplification to say trans women were socialized male, and it makes me feel like the truth of my childhood (transhood?) has been overlooked or erased.
What really gets me is how some people give their assumptions of male socialization such importance, as if privileges of class or race or heterosexuality are secondary to that. In my experience, they are not.
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Date: 2008-04-17 09:58 pm (UTC)I just think it's an oversimplification to say trans women were socialized male, and it makes me feel like the truth of my childhood (transhood?) has been overlooked or erased.
What really gets me is how some people give their assumptions of male socialization such importance, as if privileges of class or race or heterosexuality are secondary to that. In my experience, they are not.