This is just an example of
The way people treat trans people like babies, not like women.
A trans woman being gawped at in the street is experiencing something very different ti what a woman experiences when she is gawped at on the street. The latter is experiencing men who can’t or choose not to control themselves when they see someone they find attractive, the former is experiencing people staring because they’re seeing a person who looks a bit “off” to them and so is doing a double take or clocking them.
That’s the reality of it.
I think there’s a germ of a point there though, which is that it seems likely - especially based on the outfits I’ve seen some in when I’ve seen trans people out and about - that there’s a conscious choice to provoke a WTF? reaction, because the person can experience the stares that they didn’t get when dressed in masculine/neutral clothing, and process the experience as affirmation on]f being a woman.
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like I said, it was more of an observation , and I remember wondering at the time watching other peoples reaction if this was what they imagined it was going to be like before they transitioned
perhaps because of my crudeness Swagatha has me pegged as some tranny hater, but I reckon I've had more in my social circle than many, though no relatives I know about. If someone's friendly to me then I reciprocate, though I do have an aversion to dull people who trannies rarely are. I lived in brazil where travestis (their term for anything from drag to transgender) were more common and treated a little differently, though it wasn't without transphobia. And one of the most common reasons for gay blokes becoming TGs was that they could make more money as prostitutes, somehow the macho latin culture saw picking up trannies as more acceptable than gayzinhos. i lived near where avenida republica became indianapolis which was tranny prostitute central of the whole continent of an evening. My view on these thing is you probably should try and express your desires as long as it doesn't involve children or animals. but be prepared for the consequences of that expression, which can be copping constant gawping, or worse, kids and a mortgage
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