𝓝𝓪𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓮 𝓦𝔂𝓷𝓷  💎

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.

Weirder still are the confident armchair speculations that I'm not really trans—"he certainly has no medically diagnosable dysphoria"—and am making the whole thing up (hormonally annihilating my sex drive, growing breasts, etc) just for, oh I don't know, laughs I guess.

So for one thing, my doctor apparently disagrees with your Internet assessment (unless she's also in on the whole joke, which would be interesting).

For another: if your conclusion that I'm not trans is based on my online activity (and it must be since you don't actually know me), I'm wondering: what could I possibly do to convey transgenderism more convincingly? Like, what is the thing that trans people do that I don't?