But, there are many more trans people than attacks on suspected trans people. It really feels like they are bad at identifying trans people
RainaLillius
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.
People are exhausted. The protest have had little traction, the media barely covered them and downplayed them when they did. We played by the rules and got protest approved, we were non disruptive, made it easy to ignore us. If we want to have any affect we need to take cues from the French. We need to be disruptive we need to break the systems. But doing this will have a cost, there will be violence from police, there will be jail. Until more people are willing to pay that price we are just treating water, sadly.
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..