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coffeesp00ns  ·  2815 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Confessions of a Sexual Skeptic

    You have a unique perspective amongst everybody on Hubski, I think. So I'm curious - what did you personally experience as far as promiscuity etc when you identified as male vs. when you started identifying as female?

I wish I had a good answer, but I'm the wrong person to ask. I haven't had a date in over a decade and literally hate myself, so I don't have a whole lot of recent romantic experience. Have I noticed sexism? hell yes - I'm at a point in transition where some days I pass and some I don't, and on days when I pass as male I get treated incredibly differently by strangers than I do when I pass as female. I get treated more like a beginner when I pass as female in the music world, and my (personally perceived) adequacy in cooking, cleaning etc is given praise more often when I pass as male. It's a weird scene.

Trans people have documented this effect, and we even talk about it when someone is like "what's transition like?" because we say "well be prepared for privilege you didn't even know you had to slowly slip away. People will assume you don't know how to pump gas." Trans men suddenly have people paying attention to what they say, etc.