Well I can often tell that someone is trans — especially a man who converts to a woman. I have to say, like the “uncanny valley”, it is very disquieting. Trans men might not realize the reaction that cis men have to a man who is dressed as a woman.

Women who become trans men are often harder to spot. But they can only do that through the use of a-lot of makeup (a kind of disguise) and hormone injections (not healthy), and they need to be unusually tall — or they will seem like absurdly short men.

Also, a really weak man is stronger than a fairly strong woman. The strength gap between men and women is very large. Yes, some women are big, but they usually still look like women. Some are ambiguous, but they are rare. That’s why it is unfair in sports when a man who have become a trans woman competes against cis women. It goes beyond hormones: there was a whole lifetime of development in a bath of hormones, stem cells and young differentiated cells methylated as a male, and other epigenetic factors that grew the man. Turning a male body into a female body requires a-lot more than hormone injections and superficial surgery. In fact, we do not have the technology yet to do it — we can only fake it. Maybe some day.

Right now it just seems like so much trouble to go to just to try to make oneself into something else. Why not just be a man who feels like a woman? Be who you are? And don’t hesitate to say, “I feel like a woman, but I have a man’s body”. Be honest. Act feminine, but don’t say “I am a woman” when you have a man’s body: just be an effeminate man. That’s okay if it is who you are. There is nothing wrong with who you are — not as long as you can walk, talk, and function and don’t desire to hurt others. You are okay the way you are!

Dressing like a woman when you have a man’s body seems like a disguise, and one runs into the bathroom issue, and many other issues.