I don’t think it’s surprising at all
Comments (9) Mattie over at xoros.net recently posted A Funny Thing. From the post:
A funny thing, but it’s taken me a long time to adjust to the idea that I pass as cis. I mean, it’s been going on for over a year now but I still don’t expect it. It still surprises me. Not only that but I find I feel guilty towards other trans people who do not pass. So oddly I find myself having very mixed feelings about doing so. On the one hand, it does indeed rock, it’s just… incredibly pleasant to know that people see me. That they aren’t staring at me, well unless I’m out with my partner when they sometimes do stare but then they are staring at the lesbians. Which feels different to me. Actually it feels safer, believe it or not.
I completely agree with the sentiment that it’s a time-consuming adjustment from being seen/read as male (or whatever your assigned gender is) to seen/read as your identified gender. But I don’t think it’s funny or surprising. (I’m reading “funny” as “surprising” – please correct me if I’m wrong, Mattie!).
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