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Right. So put your actual biological sex which is unambiguous in 99.99% of cases on the passport, and explain that you are trans or in drag as you go through th

• ben_w 1y ago
  Drop a few nines there if you want "unambiguous". I mean, hyperandrogenism is definitely a source of ambiguity as it induces somewhat masculine features like facial hair etc., and that affects about 5%(!) of women of reproductive age, and that's ambiguity without being trans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperandrogenism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperandrogenism > The number of trans people who can pass is vanishingly small anyway. Not from the ones I've met. From what I've seen while people do the transition, transitioning is like a second puberty: during the period while your body changes in various ways, your voice sounds funny for a bit, it takes a while to develop a good sense of style for your new shape, and if you're turning into a woman rather than a man it takes ages to learn how much make up is the right amount and doesn't make you look like a clown — and transitioning also has those things. The trans people who are noticed are those who fail to pass. People don't have a magic sense telling you objective truth, and the same lack of magic sense does also mean cis people sometimes don't pass as their own gender. Like the wife of the French president*, though I've also experienced similar with a butch cis former girlfriend. Heck, my pony tail has confused people from behind, and I keep a beard partially because without it I look really girly. * One of the more harmless conspiracy theories going around at the moment, IMO