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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Gaia][quote=Anonymous]How was the response at your work - assuming you were a male when hired and are still at the same place since you officially transitioned?  (You may not be)[/quote]

I moved after I started transitioning, just to give myself a completely fresh start. My current job has only known me as a woman. Somebody I thought was a friend outed me to my boss, but my boss does not mind. I haven't told any coworkers.[/quote]

(new poster). I don't know why this annoys me or if it's wrong that it does (I feel guilty about it so assume it is wrong), but I hate seeing transgendered women (male to female) and cross dressers. I was born female, am straight and present as female. The transgendered women and those who crossdress in women's clothes NEVER look like any women I know. They always have fake manicured nails, heavily makeup'd faces, very frilly dresses, heels, etc. Why don't I ever see a transgendered woman wearing just jeans and a t-shirt like I wear every day? I can always spot a trans woman, without needing to be told. Do you think people really can't tell? Or am I just good at this? [/quote]

Not the OP.  There are lots of ways to answer this, but I think the most obvious is "How do you know that you can always spot a trans woman?"  I mean, if you can't spot her, you don't know that you didn't spot her.

As for why some trans women are into performative femininity, I think that some trans women are into performative femininity for the same reason as some cis women.  Because it makes them feel good, or that's their personal style.  I know plenty of trans women who wear jeans, or jeans and a blazer.  However, I also think there's an element of gender presentation at play.  As a cis woman, and a cis woman with an hourglass shape, there is no outfit I could wear that would lead someone to misgender me.  I wear my hair short, and I've never been called "sir."  But if you are in the grey area anyway, because you are trans or genderqueer or just androgynous, then overtly feminine clothes tell the world how you want to be addressed.  
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