You're not wrong, but there are trans people out there. I'm a trans woman myself and I cross paths with other trans people fairly often in the wild, so to speak. So it is a bit intresting that transphobes fail so hard at clocking us. Granted as a trans person myself I may be better at identifying trans people.

Although most trans people I've met are very self conscious about their appearance. So many of us don't stop using the bathroom of our birth sex until doing so becomes an issue. Usually well meaning people clocking us as our preferred gender and telling us we are in the wrong bathroom, or just making it very clear that our presence confused them. I've heard versions of this story from so many trans people. "This is when I knew it was time to switch bathrooms" is basically trope in trans spaces...

I suspect they keep attacking cis women because cis women feel comfortable using the women's restroom. Even if their appearance is outside the societal norm.

[–] scintilla@lemm.ee 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Its really weird because as a trans person I "clock" people fairly regularly. It's hard to explain what it is that I'm seeing to someone who doesn't get it though because it's not really the shit that the crazy transvestigators are looking for.

[–] RainaLillius@lemm.ee 4 points 16 hours ago

Yea, I'm pretty sure we see things that most people are blind to. A side effect or our own self criticism. It's like you see dozens of tiny cues, all of witch are also common in cis women, but the right combination of cues will trigger my spidey sense.

I don't think it's something that can be learned. But even if I could teach it, I wouldn't. With great power and all that..