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[–]MarkTwainiac 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

you think people who who appear female in these situation and are transgender are not experiencing this?

Once again, in the minds of "gender identity" believers everything is reduced to how people appear. Nothing else matters except how one looks.

FFS, being female is not simply about appearance! Women inhabit our female bodies and feel things within and because of our female bodies. Being female is not a spectator sport! If everyone on earth world lost the power of sight, smell, taste and touch tomorrow, we female people would still be female and inhabit female bodies. And males would still be 100% male, even the ones who wished to be women and claimed to be trans.

As a woman, I feel I have more in common with males who know they are males than with males who claim to be female and are focused on trying to approximate appearing female coz the "regular" males are more likely to be grounded in reality as I am.

To answer your question directly: I believe males who alter their looks so they "appear female" have absolutely no effing idea what it's like to experience life in a female body as female people do. There is very little connection between what males who identify as trans and try to come off as women experience coz of their altered appearance as they go through life and what actual female people experience coz of inhabiting bona fide female bodies.

During COVID, many women who live alone, particularly older women, haven't seen anyone or been seen by anyone in a year. This has not diminished our being female one iota. Nor has it had any impact on our experience of our female sexed bodies.

I don't understand what you mean by your reference to someone who is "thought to be pregnant"? Thought to be pregnant by whom? How can a male think he is pregnant? What would it mean and matter if someone else were to think a male who "appears like" a woman might be pregnant? A male thinking he is pregnant, or someone else thinking he is pregnant, would not make him pregnant, nor make it possible for him ever to be pregnant. There is no connection between the hypothetical you have raised and the lived reality of being a pregnant woman.

Pregnancy is something that happens inside a female body. It's not affected either way by vision - whether the woman's own or anyone else's.

When I spoke of navigating the world when pregnant, I didn't mean being viewed by others as pregnant - I meant dealing with the physical realities such as having always to find a restroom coz of the constant need to pee, feeling an exhaustion in the early months that is like no other, being nauseous 24/7 for months at a time, having always to make the sensory adjustments required to maintain balance in an unwieldy body that is and feels so markedly different and is so much larger to how it's felt and been the rest of your life, having always to be hyper-aware and vigilant coz of the need to protect the fetus from harm, having a hard time fitting into a seat in a diner or behind the wheel of a car, having your water break in public... and so on.

But all this seems beyond your understanding coz you see being female as something that is all about - and only about - appearance.