People do seem to underestimate how protective it is to pass as a 5'2" cis man who everyone but complete strangers knows was once a woman.https://twitter.com/NeolithicSheep/status/1370503783432785933 …
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Don't get me wrong... I'm very lucky. Buuuut I also make a really obvious target for drunk cis men at the bar who want to get aggro but really don't want their faces beaten in. (They find out I don't play... but I never felt so regularly threatened when I was non-male passing.)
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And, at the same time as being perceived as the smallest, weakest man, I'm also extremely out as trans with a minor but real public profile as a trans writer. I get belittled by sexists who think an extra X chromosome makes me inferior. Sometimes I get threats and harassment.
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I can handle myself, online and off. But I'm afraid the idea that transitioning, and EVEN PASSING, is especially protective is based on some erroneous assumptions.
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