I can add that I carried a gun for two years. During that time I felt at risk of assault twice, but was able to avoid it due to vigilance. Carrying a gun gives me extra perspective on random violence. I think most of it can be avoided just by avoiding bad environments/contexts
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One thing that tends to happen to many trans people is that they end up playing amateur therapist to other trans people, this despite the therapy requirement most countries have for transitioning. This is not really a "risk" in the same sense as the others, but worth noting.
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Chasers: Many if not most sexual solicitations will come from fetishists. These men often have emotional and psychological problems and if you turn them down sometimes they'll get unreasonably angry, feeling that dejection from a trans woman is especially or atypically degrading
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Shopping: Misgendering is ubiquitous, whether malicious or from ignorance. I've never been asked to leave but have been harassed/ignored. Fast food is always bad. In general, the problem is lower class people who feel resentful about having to serve/associate with a trans person
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One big risk that's underreported: Hormone replacement therapy right now typically sucks. It follows standards of care defined something like 50 years ago, uses obsolete medications that are harmful to the body, and ignores relevant individual genetic and biological information
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I haven't experienced this personally, but a lot of older trans people have problems establishing work history without outing themselves given that it is all under an old name. I just have the normal millennial problem of never hired into the relevant industry in the first place.
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