The comments on that post are amazing.

I was curious what kind of mental gymnastics they'd go through to come to terms with reality but, of course, instead of concluding that gay men have no interest in transgendered people, they've instead gone the route of "You need to transition more! More hormone therapy! More surgery! Until you pass better!" (Paraphrased)

The op even writes: "Thanks for all the comments and advice everyone. I guess I was a bit too excited to go to this thing and I should have waited until further in my transition. I just wanted so badly to be valid in their eyes and got hasty."

Because, of course, what kind of gay man wouldn't want to have sex with a woman, let alone a woman with their forearm flesh transplanted and sewn together to make a ridiculous Frankensteinien imitation of a 'dick' dangling between her legs.

I also appreciate the contextual intent behind the word "passing" but increasingly it seems to be a word that implies "deception": deceive them into thinking you're one of them. Then they'll sleep with you! That'll do the trick!

There is absolutely nothing that you can do that will cause someone who is gay, or straight, to be with you if you are not respectively their same-sex or opposite-sex. You will never be a 'valid' gay man.

That is a well-rehearsed myth in their community that flies in the face of reason and reality. That's what you get for living in an echo chamber and preferring the comforts of delusion to the blinding self-realisation of real-life.