Types of trans people I’ve noticed

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[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I think Type 1 people are just more often than other types interested in blending in, disconnecting from LGBT, and actually just living their lives. The people who actually just want to pee and can often get away with using female spaces without detection.

An exception is someone like Laverne Cox who enjoys having the social power that comes with being trans. Probably because Cox knows that black women comparatively lack social power and that they would have no career if they were seen as a black woman and not a black trans woman. They would be judged against the harsh standards that black women are faced with and wouldn’t be called stunning or brave.

[–]SeasideLimbs 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I'd agree with the second paragraph. As for the first, since the amount of homophobia necessary to pressure a man who has no AGP at all into identifying as trans is very high and more often seen in countries where being homosexual is illegal, it's an almost non-existent group here. My comment on their mindset was not going by raw numbers either but by all the people I have personally been in contact with, which was hundreds. Time and time again, people who identified as HSTS turned out to simply be AGPs who hid it better.

[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I definitely agree that a lot of AGPs try to pretend they're HSTS.