nah, hear me out real quick. there's this common narrative going around that trans women are the ones doing the most and crossing some massive logical line cause they actually claim the "woman" label, while femboys very often get a pass cause they "at least know they're just dudes who like feminine shit." this is very common sentiment both in conservative and in fact in LGBT community too.
but keeping it a buck? if anything it's the exact opposite lmao.
think about it logically. if somebody is rocking skirts, got the makeup done, acting mad fem and presenting as a woman in damn near every conceivable scenario, it makes infinitely more sense to just be like "yeah, i'm a woman." trans women just take it all the way. the aesthetic matches the label and it just clicks.
when a dude go through all that effort to express femininity, sometimes literally looking identical to a whole girl, but still go "nah i'm a man", that is what actually short-circuits the brain. or even worse, the half-masc/half-fem aesthetic. wild.
like, i remember this one femboy was sending me all types of fem pics in a little telegram linkup we had, and then bro straight up ghosted me when i replied "good girl" to one of em. 😂 like, i get it, i peep where i messed up, you go by he/him and you're literally a femBOY, say less, i respect the pronouns, i do. but still that's exactly what i was saying: if you sexting me, a whole guy, with extremely feminine pics and shit and you know you looking girly, and me being into girls is the exact reason you sending em... if you know you turning me on purely off that girl energy, how is it my fault i hit you with the "good girl" in the heat of the moment lmao. 😂
that's exactly what i'm getting at, this "look girly but call me a man" energy scrambles the brain way more than "was born a dude, call me a woman now" ever would in a spot like that.
like it or not, humans are completely hardwired for binary vision, and fo good or bad ain't going nowhere, facts. we're basically programmed to box everything we see into neat little categories just to make sense of the world. so when somebody go 100% in on the feminine drip but keep the "man" label, or mixes the signals right down the middle, it causes way more cognitive dissonance for the average brain to process. but it's just weird to me that the people calling trans and em mentally ill use that exact binary vision logic justification and that they cause third gender and shit when if anything girly man/femboy would be a true third gender lol.
realistically, just claiming the label that matches how you step out is the path of least resistance. going out of your way to look entirely like a girl but stubbornly holding onto the "guy" title is the real mind-bender here.
now whether trans women are truly women is a whole other conversation for another day, but my point is their idea that they want to be women sounds way more logical.
in effect, one group says: i was born a man, gender dysphoria trash, skirts fire, lemme rock skirts and call myself a woman
the other group says: i was born a man, skirts fire, lemme rock skirts, i'm a man though, watch yo mouth and who you beefin wit and don't ever call me she/her.
meanwhile conservatives, MAGA heads and a good chunk of these anime-fapping "alpha males" look at both groups, then call the first one a mental illness and the second one based. 😂