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Why don't people know that they're trans? Because they're hiding in the shadows of society, because they're afraid of getting the shit beat out of them by bigots who hate anyone different than themselves.
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I'm like, kinda sorta with you on one hand, and on the other hand
look at flint so CUTE with his new toy! But MAN the thing I hate the most is when lefties assume both the moral high ground *and* faux expertise about an issue.
"Trans" now having been painted with this super-broad brush ("people being BULLIED!"), because it fits the notion of
anti-trans is just like racism!, now suddenly
NOT! WE ARE NOT talking about "cross dressers" as if from a Monty Python sketch.
Wait, why not? "trans" accounts for a very wide description of people, some of whom are exactly like you describe and being bullied, and others who are:
Mike who likes to wear something frilly on Saturday night and is perfectly content with that level of crossover, would not go further;
Liza who has had the surgery and has lived as a woman for 25 years; and now considers herself a woman, not a trans, and is frankly way more concerned about women's issues;
Martine who is a woman, lesbian and doesn't actually think of herself as trans, but looks so masculine that she is regularly considered trans and doesn't mind the label if she can use men's accoutrements;
Jane, bio male who lives as a woman, and black-markets what she thinks are the right steroids from Canada, but intends to never get the surgery. If you tell her she's not passing, ever, at all, she will be VERY angry.
George who is a "cross dresser" as in a Monty Python sketch. Does it for fun. May enjoy it too much, he's not saying.
Jennifer, who first thought she was George, then thought she was Mike, then thought she was Jane, and is now Liza.
(I have known them all.)