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Wonderland :
@Wonderland:I was born male, tried to live up to it. Being smaller, softer personality etc, always picked on by boys/men. Fear in men's room always been there. I had more female friends, played with barbies etc, always felt left out of being a girl. So while it wasn't the same as growing up cis girl, it was a bad experience non the less. Transition late in life to female, my social structure feels way more aligned with who I am. So the container you're born in, doesn't always match what's inside it. Open a cookie tin and there is an awesome sewing kit inside, that's me.
2026-01-23 18:00:33
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kasey💫 :
Because why does the “female experience” have to include male harassment???? Like we’re discrediting their existence because they weren’t preyed upon??? That’s weird af
2026-01-21 22:28:38
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Spooky Sally :
trans women dont have the same lived experience as CIS women. i dont see how that's relevant tho. every individual person has a different lived experience than another person. acknowledging that trans women have a different experience in life doesnt take away from the fact that theyre still women. it may be a choice to medically transition but being trans isnt isnt a choice
2026-01-21 17:38:40
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TransTrend3r :
Thank you for the vid! The whole idea of “male socialization” and “female socialization” is flawed, terf logic to begin with. Thinking that trans women and cis men are given some kind of shared, “male socialization” by society is just plain wrong! Sure, at a surface level, both are told “be a man,” but to cis men this means “be your true self with minimal judgement” which encourages them to exist as men in the world and take up space. On the other hand, when trans women (still living as boys) are told the exact same thing, they are being told “hey- you don’t get to be yourself, you have to be small and shrink yourself to fit into other people’s expectations of what society wants you to be.” It’s like if we made two people eat a peanut-butter sandwich, but one of those people loves peanut butter and thinks it’s a tasty snack, while the other person literally can’t eat peanuts and will die if they do. And then society comes away thinking “but, they were given the same sandwich, so isn’t it the same thing for both of them? 🤷” Noooooo 😭 it isn’t! Trans women and cis men do *not* share a common “male socialization” (whatever that is).
2026-01-22 16:29:13
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Tyrus77 :
it's also just straight up not true. As a cis but not "masculine" man (i.e. a nerd and not sports), I went through life in constant vigilance of getting jumped for being including frequent f-slur for gay names while being attacked
2026-01-21 20:09:02
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Blue Jay :
Oh, but trans women, do have to worry about violence from men, we are treated like we are apostates of manhood. Even as children we are beaten whenever we show the slightest bit of femininity So no, it's not exactly the same, but violence is still violence.
2026-01-21 19:07:06
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Jacquelyn :
acting like trans women and girls weren't getting assaulted before transitioning because they weren't "manly enough"... I got bullied so much by cis males growing up because I wasn't "manly enough"...
2026-01-22 07:51:30
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King 🌟 :
my co-worker tried to tell me once that he was "against the transgender movement" and when I asked him to clarify why he said he doesn't like the idea of forcing a kid to fit into a gendered category. I said "so your issue is with child abuse, not with transgender people" and he took a minute to think about it and was just like "yeah I guess" and now we're cool
2026-01-21 21:18:33
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adliz :
at what point do we consider the emotional trauma about gender norms, threats to conform, talk of how trans women are "trapping" men, the concept of "super straight", telling us we need to act like a man, actual homicide of trans women, and general anti lgbtq+ rhetoric inflicted upon us by society in general, but specifically the men in our lives, what point is that recognized as assault? to the extent that all trans women in our society suffer because of it, out or not, transitioned or not, driving many of my trans siblings to suicide, and keeping the ones who finally overcome that mindset repressed and depressed for years to decades, only to be greeted with hate and vitriol once we refuse to live a lie anymore?
2026-01-21 16:51:16
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dxed.deergirl :
as a trans woman, my entire childhood as a boy was being forced to share spaces with men and constantly being preyed on by them. especially the ones older than me. being a trans women usually means having the same traumas as cis women but being screamed at that i will never get it. usually by the women who make excuses for those cis men
2026-01-22 20:16:39
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soulovely0 :
Some of us knew what we were very early and experienced some of the same fear and anxiety from different sources or sometimes the same sources using gender dysphoria as proxy. I have a text video about it. It's interesting stuff, but most ppl aren't ready for those conversations
2026-01-21 16:01:14
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ArandomNewYorker :
i was stuck in a highschool lockerroom with other teenage boys as a closeted trans woman. that alone was pretty much SA or SH, well given the things they did in their to each other and to me i would say it was especially when it was non consensual.
2026-01-21 22:10:04
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Rhys :
I don't think I've ever met a trans person who has ever in their life been perceived as male-passing (whether a trans woman earlier in her life or a trans man after he's transitioned) who haven't readily acknowledged the intersectional male privilege they experienced when they were passing. But it's just that, intersectional. Yes. there is a privilege in being male-passing. But there's also marginalization for not perfectly satisfying the social expectation of "masculinity".
2026-01-23 05:46:06
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Jak :
🥺 see I feel like I'm the inverse of this, I can't figure out trans because it feels like its based on the foundation that sex is universal. where as far as I can tell it's all literally entirely made up. instead of trying to define ourselves by the "correct" gender/sex we should really just be questioning why any of it matters no? plz send help I've been confused for so long🥺
2026-01-21 15:56:17
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Undercover nanny :
No, they get a whole other other side of anxiety and fear that’s like a Muslim woman in a black woman have different experiences in America. Yeah I’m sure they’re different. The base is the same though it is a lot of hatred.
2026-01-24 00:56:41
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FanboyisTransboy :
This also ignores the fact that trans women are often already understood by their peers to not be men even before they transition. You can be in the closet as a little boy and kids will treat you differently cause they can smell the gender variance on you.
2026-01-22 17:57:44
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Im Eating Cheese :
always white women that suddenly & conveniently forget about intersectionality when these topics come up, as if a white woman isn't the most dangerous thing to a minority man. as if white tears aren't leagues more dangerous.
2026-01-21 19:16:23
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BadgerEthair :
Please do not take this as a redirect from the important issues discussed here, but potentially an addition - Cis Men (CM) prey on smaller, petite, feminine, or androgenous CMs as well. CMs will dominate/hurt anything they see as weaker/smaller/inferior - especially if they know they can get away with it. While obviously these are far from the experiences that Cis-Women suffer at the hands of CMs, and again not comparable to the experience of a Trans-person, I do believe that people that are going through MTF transitions have experienced some real fear, and hurt, at the hands of "strong masculine" CMs in their childhoods. Again, we cannot even begin to compare the experiences since what women go through is fucking insane and societies biggest shame - I would hope that Cis-Women might take that into account when saying that Trans people don't have fear of CMs from their childhood, and may be worthy of bringing up when someone says things like this. Great video, keep educating!
2026-01-22 01:28:01
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aerin.salvo :
Girl. This whole convo burns me up. I transitioned at 46 and was NEVER comfortable around men, and as a kid? The cis boys could smell the queer on me like sharks smell blood. I only ever felt completely safe around my girl friends, but since I looked like a boy I couldn’t really hangout with them in the same way I could’ve if I had been born cis. Like. We are BORN trans. Like…😡
2026-02-14 16:03:05
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Peanutbutter Sunfish :
"A trans woman wouldn't have to grow up constantly worried about being assaulted by men" Well, maybe not sexually, but physically...
2026-02-15 18:25:57
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Dia :
My ex was legit like this. The amount of damage this rhetoric can have on a baby-trans is ridiculous
2026-01-26 20:44:31
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Bumububakabugy :
I've literally put off hormones for the past like 5 years cuz I'm afraid of how men will act.
2026-03-05 15:28:35
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auroradraculaura🏳️⚧️ :
i copied other girls mannerisms as a kid and took many stuff from women more heavily growing up as a trans woman. ive also always been very empathetic and sympathetic. i usually find women very cool and admirable rather than “hot.” i’ve had guy friends growing up because i hated being shipped when i was around girls. they’ve said things like “she’s hot right?” while laughing and i’d be like “she’s cool i guess.” and they’d be like all grinning and laughing being like “oh you gay or somethin? she’s literally so hot dude” and i’d be like “im straight. (closeted trans woman in this instance i’d actually be lesbian) i don’t need to prove it.” and they’d just laugh and touch me in an innapropiate way to make fun of me.
2026-01-23 04:58:37
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Kella Patin :
The fear of being assaulted doesn’t define me as a woman, nor do I think that fear is a nonnegotiable part of womanhood. There are as many ways to be a woman as there are women, cis or trans.
2026-01-21 21:05:13
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