𝓝𝓪𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓮 𝓦𝔂𝓷𝓷  💎

It's time to sublimate the baseline unhappiness of human experience into moaning about some minor slights against my identity-politics group. So, here's some annoying things people say to me because I'm trans:

People say: "Is it weird that I'm attracted to you as a straight man/lesbian?" No, it's not that weird. Everything has been explained. Try to keep up.

People say: "Your effort to copy a woman's voice sounds fake." (I get this less often than I used to.) Look: I'm training my voice to have a whole new pitch/resonance/cadence. It's not gonna sound natural at first. But will you give me five fucking seconds to work on it?

Related: "If you always wear makeup and dresses doesn't that make you just a man's caricature idea of a woman? Isn't it unfeminist?" (If the speaker is a TERF the adjective "pornified" will probably be thrown in somewhere.)

Before responding to that, let's consider a counterfactual: Suppose I wore jeans and a t-shirt all the time and no makeup. I didn't do the orange-concealer-&-foundation-over-beard-shadow routine. Wouldn't you then say: "You just look like a man, you're not even trying."

(If a TERF you'd probably add in what a terrifying menace I am to true females in female spaces.) Aren't you just against the idea of transition full stop? Why pretend this is about specific details of my transition when really it's about your wholesale rejection of trans people?

Let's move from microaggressions to true macro-idiocy. People sometimes adduce pre-transition pictures and videos of me as evidence that I couldn't possibly be the gender I say on them. To this I say: you know, it's called "transition" for a reason.

The allegation seems to be that I'm pretending to be cis. Basically it's transphobic trope #1: "trans people are liars." In my case this seems especially odd, seeing as I make videos where my male body transforms into my female body through the magic of editing, etc.