semi-related… there’s a lot of projection about what they believe/want the experience of trans women+femmes to be in order to identify with it. but “haha i’m basically a man in a dress now, y’know, like a trans woman” is one of the nastiest transmisogynistic expressions of it that i see all. the. time.
Sometimes fem trans men will say “I feel more like a trans girl, like I wish I had a guys body so I’d be feminine but seen as a feminine amab.” Wich implies trans women are seen as not women, and are some second class of masculine feminine people, when trans women are literally just women as much as cis women are. They don’t have any “funky gender” they’re just. Women