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Understanding Trans People and How Conservatives Manipulate Your Ignorance
Cisgender ignorance of transgender reality
Once again, a cisgender woman has been falsely identified as a transgender woman and dragged out of a public restroom. In reality, the only biological men in the bathroom that day were the police officers who went in to remove her.
When all the controversies about transgender women using public bathrooms began several years ago, I knew cisgender women would also get targeted. I’ve known several women who have more masculine looking faces and physiques. That doesn’t make them less female or feminine, it’s just how they look. However, they still did their hair and nails, wore makeup and dresses, and otherwise acted and sounded like women.
So, it’s taken me by surprise that it’s cisgender women who prefer presenting more butch, with short hair, no makeup, or nail polish, and dressing a bit more masculine, who are being targeted in bathrooms more often. The irony of the matter is that most transgender women present very feminine in how they style their hair, makeup, and clothing. So, why are butch cisgender women being targeted?
Do people somehow think these women are transgender men who are still using the women’s bathroom? That can’t be it, as I’ve been told repeatedly by TERFs that, despite identifying as a man, I am still just a woman and I would be welcome in a women’s bathroom. So, that can’t be it, can it?
I believe some people are just confused about what transgender women even look like as one cisgender woman, after cutting her hair short, was accused of being either a man or a male child, when using the women’s room at a casino back in 2022.
