Got misgendered and yelled at recently by a trans woman who argued that I’m just a cis person trying to seem special and that I don’t understand what it’s like to really be misgendered and oppressed. She told me that I don’t understand real dysphoria and that I’m just trying to stand out as a “cool dude”. Ironically I felt progressively more dysphoric and angry every time she kept calling me a man. It took every last ounce of willpower in me to stop myself from beating her bloody. Now I’m feeling like shit today and probably will continue feeling like shit tomorrow.
Why are some people so fucking terrible.
I think for most people the terms trans, transgender, transsexual, and transvestite are all synonymous and each just newer and less stigmatized than the last. So they might not even realize the terms have different origins and meanings.