A commenter on my Elliott Page piece brought up this idea that womanhood is narrowing, because anyone with a gender bending presentation is encouraged to become a trans man. I'd like to address this.https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/12/elliot-page-trans-lesbian-divide.html …
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I think the confusion comes from the belief that, because many people who choose an atypical gender presentation are doing so due to gender dysphoria it means that those gender presentations aren't available any more.
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The existence of butches who transition to male has nothing to do with butch presentations being unavailable. To the contrary- if they weren't available there wouldn't be people using them who then go on to transition.
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In practice, people often begin trying to soothe their gender dysphoria by dressing in clothes of the opposite sex. This is actually a much easier presentation option for AFAB people, because women wearing men's clothing is far more socially acceptable than the reverse.
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But that doesn't mean nontraditional presentations are unavailable for non-dysphoric people, just that nondysphoric folks aren't as likely to have chosen them in the first place.
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If you like being a gender nonconforming woman, be one. No one is stopping you. No one needs you to transition. Many of us first realized we were trans men when dressing in men's clothes and being perceived as women. If you feel no dysphoria that has nothing to do with you.
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(And If you do feel dysphoria... well, hon, that was me once. I felt "pressure" to transition JUST BECAUSE I hated being female and wished to be male and seeing that other people were transitioning was making it harder and harder to cling to my reasons for not doing it to.)
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If butch identity didnt exist, i think a lot of trans men just wouldn't survive long enough to realise that transition was an option for them.
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