I did a fun (for me) science thread, but I promised I'd do a thread about trans men, virilismia, and the stigma against ugly women, so let's go! To start out: Are you a trans man whose spent some part of your life being perceived as an ugly woman? What do you make of that?
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Replying to @e_urq
It was half and half, some people would say I was "pretty" and "feminine" but there were plenty who said I was ugly, so I figured I was just "meh" at best. I really struggled with a lot of unrequited crushes, I've only had three actual partners. 1/
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But I put some of that down to being autistic, people really thought I was weird. It didn't occur to me, suppressing my transness as I was, to think about whether it was my gender. 2/2
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I relate to getting messages of both pretty and ugliness. I think the prettiness messages were more condescending, more aimed at getting me to try harder. They reminded me of how gym teachers would always say I was doing well to try and get me to keep trying in gym class.
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Replying to @e_urq
OMG exactly! My mum took me to a Debenhams to have my makeup done (she was always trying to "help me", probably another clue) and the makeup lady said "potential". I hated it on multiple levels.
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Nodding so hard my head may fall of rn
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