Back in the day you had to actually live as a mazn or a woman for like 6 months

But how does one "live as a man or a woman"? When people explain what that means, it's always just superficial things like clothing, hairstyles, grooming, voice, silly stereotypes - and of course trans persons' unwarranted belief that coz they dress or alter their body in certain ways, they are entitled to ride roughshod over other people's sex-based boundaries and rights, and "deserve" to use the toilets, changing rooms and other facilities and services and programs meant for the opposite sex.

I'm a retirement-age woman whose attire, grooming and affect are like most women past middle-age - which is to say, we are absolutely nothing at all like Blaire White, Contrapoints, Gigi Gorgeous or Ru Paul when in full drag in our appearance or affect. But by the regressively sexist standards of trans ideology, those males count more as women than we do - even though we're the the only ones who because of our female sex and our female bodies in a male-supremacist, misogynistic world have spent our entire lives dealing with a ton of issues and barriers that males - no matter how they "present" and how "girly" they think they look and act - have never faced, and never will face.

The whole ideology is sexist tosh based on cosplay, stereotypes, superficiality, fantasy and denial of material reality.