• abbiistabbii
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    2 months ago

    to be fair, when a transgirl passes, transphobes will say they’ll never be a woman and look like a man. Hell, transphobes will do that to cispeople in general because they hate anyone who doesn’t fit exactly into their mold. There’s even whole transvestigation groups that claim certain celebrities are trans because of slight features of how they look.

    Literally saw a transvestigation post claiming Andre the Giant was trans.

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      2 months ago

      “Michael Obama” jokes were a thing long before conservatives had trans people on their radar. No safety in being cis, or different in any way at all.

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        Too many of them weren’t joking. That was a rather popular conspiracy theory during the Obama years; that Michelle is trans (or, to hear them tell it, “really a man”) and their daughters are actors.

    • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.worldM
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      2 months ago

      One time my friend told me they could always tell trans women and cis women apart, so I showed him a picture of Molly Ringwald in Breakfast Club and he guessed “trans” lmao.

      He claimed it didn’t prove anything because I tricked him.