I mean, men also have to put in effort to perform masculinity, or be seen as being inadequate men; I don’t think this is a gendered thing. But even a man that isn’t “performing masculinity adequately”, an inadequate man, like an inadequate woman, is still a distinct category, and though transwomen, like born women, aim to perform femininity, transwomen have a higher distance to cross and in doing so traverse between clusters along several dimensions. I think we can meaningfully separate “perform effort to transition in adequacy” from “perform effort to transition in cluster”, even if the goal is the same.
(From what I gather of VRChat, the ideal man is also a pretty girl that is overall human with the exception of cat ears and a tail...)
I mean, men also have to put in effort to perform masculinity, or be seen as being inadequate men; I don’t think this is a gendered thing. But even a man that isn’t “performing masculinity adequately”, an inadequate man, like an inadequate woman, is still a distinct category, and though transwomen, like born women, aim to perform femininity, transwomen have a higher distance to cross and in doing so traverse between clusters along several dimensions. I think we can meaningfully separate “perform effort to transition in adequacy” from “perform effort to transition in cluster”, even if the goal is the same.
(From what I gather of VRChat, the ideal man is also a pretty girl that is overall human with the exception of cat ears and a tail...)