This comic isn’t perfect. I started it back in October 2023, and every time I picked up my pen, I wept.
I bring this to you today, on 9/11, in hopes that you reflect on this day a little differently than how most Americans would. Let it move you to continue to boycott, protest and challenge your family, friends and colleagues. You have a bigger impact than you would believe.
male socialization was when they surrounded me in the school locker room and carried me kicking and screaming back to the stalls so everyone else could pretend to not know what was happening.
male socialization was when i kept trying to use a piece of twine in order to self castrate when i was 11.
male socialization was when I would secretly take my mother’s women’s multivitamins because maybe that’s what I needed to become a girl.
male socialization was when I would ask my older sister if I could pleasd sleep in her room whenever she was going to be gone for trips or sleepovers at her friend’s place.
male socialization was when I broke down crying in front of my parents and school counselor because I thought that I was gay (derogatory) because I wanted so badly to be a girl.
male socialization was when I prayed for 3000 nights to please, god, please, please let me wake up as a girl i’ll do anything please
Any analysis that says “cis men do/experience X and therefore so do trans women”, that insists on erasing and flattening trans women’s socialization into the category of “male socialization” is frankly juvenile and does not hold up to scrutiny. it’s reductive, innacurate, bioessentialist nonsense.
