transcription: saying “male to female” instead of just trans woman is like referring to fully grown people as “baby to adult”. ahh… so you used to be a baby??? are you telling be you were BORN a baby… but then… hormones turned you into an adult? nice try. giant baby
I just don’t know any scenario where anyone would specify trans woman or male to female unless someone was self identifying on the internet.
I think I have the equivalence of facial blindness for gender, so I really know not to make assumptions greater than something like dresses are usually worn by people presenting as feminine. But then again I am really out of touch with fashion, so I’m not even totally confident about that.
Maybe some people make a habit of clocking people in public? But I honestly don’t know how anyone goes about doing so with any confidence. A while ago people were using their pronouns when introducing themselves at my work and that was soo helpful for me, now I just avoid pronouns all together unless people use them in front of me first.
They probably don’t really care if they’re disrespectful or wrong. The only person I’ve had do that immediately made it clear he fetishizes trans women and doesn’t even respect their pronouns and opted for using pronouns usually used by transphobic people to refer to me and others like me and still tried asking me out to lunch alone…
I guess I hadn’t thought of that… I suppose it makes sense that a person who doesn’t respect a random woman, doesn’t respect women general.
Ahh the bigoted chaser, why is this such a common entity? You would think if you really had the hots for a specific group of people you would learn not to cock block yourself by automatically being a complete ghoul. I guess it’s almost a good thing these types flag themselves as fetishists so often, might be worse off if they learn to fake human decency.