My favorite part is how seemingly an overwhelming majority of them stereotype women--vicariously, through the way they try to express their transition-- through such an astoundingly sexist filter that it becomes barely anything more than misogyny in frilly clothing. It's not enough for them to just identify as female, they have to go balls-to-the-wall
(Pun intended) and wear all the girliest Barbie shit that they can find, usually wind up with some rapidly-growing collection of sex toys, fish net stockings, and hooker boots, and then constantly use language that's so sexually aggressive that it's legitimately grotesque.
I've somehow managed to run across an unusual number of transgender people throughout my life, and even made friends with quite a few of them, but they
invariably possess all the same sorts of traits. They're hyper-reactionary and will fly to 11 at the drop of a hat, excessively emotional to the point where people with extreme bipolar disorders would tell them to chill out,
aggressively sexual to such a degree that it's obviously some sort of nymphomaniacal compulsion that makes you desperately avoid any topics or even words that could be
loosely interpreted as sexual, and they always become incredibly defensive around any woman they perceive as some sort of threat, which is.. Most women, to be impolitely honest.
What's curious is that they always focus on what makes a woman
aesthetically a female. It's always surface-level observation, every time. Be it the clothes, the make-up, the genitals, and to a less-aesthetic extent, what they
perceive to be a woman's sex drive, even though they've clearly plucked it from their abnormally large hoard of Japanese cartoons, because they... Always seem to be obsessed with anime. But when you set aside all of the desperate efforts to make themselves outwardly appear to be female--regardless of whether or not that succeeds-- they fail to understand what makes a woman a
woman.
I've yet to meet one who was a 'nest-builder' or a 'home-maker' and to the best of my memory I've yet to meet one that also didn't outright
hate children.
James Damore's memo always pops into my head during this sort of conversation because he outlined two very specific differences between men and women, namely that women are more interested in
people and men are always more interested in
things, hence why men are unavoidably always going to be the top 99 in every list of 100 programmers or strange shut-in jobs and hobbies, because women, on average and to a
very large extent, do not operate well in isolation and are more concerned with building their social circles and their families than they are much of anything else.
This is also not a trait that I've ever seen a trans person adopt, either pre- or post-transition, and the inverse is just as true for FtM as it is for MtF, because if it were the case, we'd see significantly larger groups of FtM people cropping up in the tech and gaming industries and we'd see a rapid rise in MtF people popping up in.. I don't know, Oprah or home cooking channels or something. Can you name even a single FtM personality in gaming, speed-running and tech circles, or are these industries
filled with MtF people?
Their perception of women always begins and ends at the aesthetic, because that's just how the male brain categorizes things, especially when it's essentially been 'trained'--through what I can only assume is a constant stream of pornography and shitty cartoons--to view women, and by extension feminity, as little more than sexual. Granted, all of these opinions are generally why my friendships with trans people seem to only last a handful of months at
best, but I've yet to encounter any evidence that leads me to believe that transgendered people are not just gay people who were struck with a mental crisis and veered down the wrong road instead of resolving it properly.
This opinion is only bolstered by the fact that I have yet, not so much as a single time, ever met a trans person who was not raised in an extremely abusive environment. It's definitely not a popular opinion in those circles, but if I see something that appears in 100% of all cases I've encountered, I'm not particularly inclined to just dismiss it as coincidence.