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honestly whenever I see a trans guy doing the “I have a special connection with girlhood because of my officially female childhood” I mostly end up feeling bad for them

I feel like there’s a lot of assumption that girl childhood is synonymous with misery and boy childhood is synonymous with freedom and a big part of why transgender women are quick to recognize that their life pretransition was not standard is on the basis of it being perpetual suffering and alienation and denial but trans men will often have miserable childhoods and then chalk this up to standard girlhood experience instead of like, specific and targeted alienation on the basis of gender dissonance. People sort of very intuitively process boyhood as something hierarchical in which you can fail at developing into manhood, it’s a very transparent system, but there is little recognition of similar social systems in girls and how young girls are very, very willing and capable of suffocating and hurting those they recognize as nonstandard