"Life experience" is a brutal and punishing demand to put on trans women (by design), but I haven't seen people talk about how meaningless and weird it can seem as a requirement for trans men.
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An AMAB person wearing women's clothing (and doing other presentation things to signify 'woman') is not culturally equivalent to an AFAB person wearing men's clothing. They're so different, in fact, that requiring "life experience" for trans men becomes near meaningless.
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An adult AFAB person could easily wear boys' clothing from the age of 3 and never once be perceived as anything but 'sporty', With a short haircut maybe he'll have been seen as a butch lesbian, but even that depends on how feminine his features are and local style.
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In Cambridge, Massachusetts when I started timidly wearing men's clothes in light colors (pink button down with a cream sweater vest, for example), I could still say I was femme presenting. Definitely not turning any heads or attracting attention.
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Yep, absolutely. I call myself a gender conforming man- but in my cultural context that means keeping basically the same style (albeit fewer shirts in actual pink), and taking T for 5 yrs.
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