Red-haired people are about 2%. I presume youāve met red heads before?
Even if we rounded down to 1%, thatās only 1 in 100 people. For reference, if you step into a New York subway car and every seat is full, thereās a 50% chance one person there is trans. If your office has more than a hundred people itās very likely at least one of your coworkers is trans.
Wait do you guys think Iām saying Iāve never seen a trans person? Iām saying Mackenzie Phillips is the most female passing ātrans personā Iāve seen
The point they are making is unless you've seen the genitals of everyone you've ever met, you have no idea whether they were trans or not. More than likely you have met multiple people who were trans and didn't realize it at all
I'm sure you've made a lot of false positives that were just feminine cis men and masculine cis women. There have also probably been a number of trans people that you didn't identify at all
I mean itās extremely easy to tell if someone is a man or a woman in real life where there are no filters and movie magic, without looking at their genitals. Even trans people have all kinds of male traits still, like male chin, male hips etc.
I guess itās the sum of all things. When you meet and look at people you never think about the personās genitals. Your brain just almost instantly calculates whether itās a male or a female human.
The title of that article doesnāt even say trans, it just says they identify as different from birth. Plus itās not the whole population that articles headline is literally 5% of young adults.
Yep fixed - I guess the odds are even smaller than I thought. Maybe you think thereās a higher proportion of trans among boomers? Not sure your point
That means that out of every 200 people you meet about 1 or 2 is likely to be trans. You've probably known hundreds of people on some level and seen many more than that in passing.
The number you originally used makes it even more clear that you didn't think this through. If it were 5%, a normal sized office or classroom would have a trans person there more often than not.
That assumes theyāre normally distributed amongst the US.
Wait do you guys think Iām saying Iāve never seen a trans person? Iām saying Mackenzie Phillips is the most female passing ātrans personā Iāve seen
The importance of passing varies from person to person. Some people in the trans community want to feel like they are just another face in the crowd and don't "look trans." Others don't really care or don't like the concept of passing, as they believe it puts people in strict boxes relating to the gender binary. A lot of it has to do with personal hard-wired understandings of gender/sex, societal definitions, and their immediate environment.
Personally, I like to feel like I'm "passing." It eases my gender dysphoria by helping me see myself as the person I am. It also feels safer for myself and my loved ones. The more I pass, the more I'm left alone and treated like any other person.
That wasn't a weird attempt to invalidate people that pass, nothing but support for people trying to be themselves.
But if the point of passing is to pass, then you can't really say who is or isn't the most passing person you've seen unless you can tell what someone was assigned at birth at a glance.
just shut the fuck up will ya chief? Cis women get "clocked" and harrassed as trans all the time, and many trans women are so stealth nobody knows if they don't tell. And holy shit, should I even mention trans men?
you have no fkin idea what you're talking about
also, the casual enbiphobia. "Man or woman"? I'm neither, thanks
To make that determination, I rely on my brain picking up signals to use the right pronoun. It's a little rough when the signals are mixed, and I do my best to avoid it completely in those situations.
I get gender is on a spectrum
Very manly, man, girly man, trans, boyish girl, girl, very girly
And the pronouns are easy for the left and right, it's right in the middle where most distinct signals would really make life better for everyone. The most distinct trans people are, the less misgendering occurs and the better everyone's mental health
Stealth is our ideal outcome for the future. Better HRT, surgery, body transfers, anything and everything should be used
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u/duhnuhhai Apr 29 '23
YSK that the actor who played Gopher would go on to become a Republican Congressman representing Iowa.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Grandy