Transmisogyny in Action #3: Internalized Self-Hate

[Natasha]

Transmisogyny in Action #3: Internalized Self-Hate

http://nutsandboltsoftrans.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/transmisogyny-in-action-3-internalized-self-hate/
5/18/11
by nutsandboltsoftrans

Transmisogyny is a cultural narrative that all people exposed to media, socialization, or even just gender roles, can and will internalize. That includes trans women, and in many ways, we tend to accumulate it at a superhuman rate, using it as our only lens of self-understanding until we meet somebody who gives us a better option. This shouldn't be a hard sell on anybody actually familiar with trans issues. Suicide, after all, is an obvious direct result of your own internalized self-hate. Other self-destructive tendencies are clearly related–I have personally struggled with these my entire life.