Sounds like he’s male. A while ago, I read something in a thread on reddit about women in IT, where a woman complained about women having to prove themselves all the time there. And I was thinking that yes, that sucks; you’d think that after a time, people would recognize that hey, this woman knows her stuff. But then a man asked what was the problem with that, after all, it wasn’t like men didn’t have to prove themselves with every interaction as well.
I have a friend who owns a business that they ran for years as a female then transitioned with hormones. Over a short time they appeared very obviously male to everyone they met. He said that people stopped questioning everything he said and just believed him. Like, he would make a reasonable informed statement and that would be it, people accepted it as the truth.
I’ve heard this is a universal experience of transmen, which is interesting as they are often shorter and smaller yet still find this advantage.
Sounds like he’s male. A while ago, I read something in a thread on reddit about women in IT, where a woman complained about women having to prove themselves all the time there. And I was thinking that yes, that sucks; you’d think that after a time, people would recognize that hey, this woman knows her stuff. But then a man asked what was the problem with that, after all, it wasn’t like men didn’t have to prove themselves with every interaction as well.
There might be a difference in the baselines that men and women have to prove themselves against.
Yes, good point.
I have a friend who owns a business that they ran for years as a female then transitioned with hormones. Over a short time they appeared very obviously male to everyone they met. He said that people stopped questioning everything he said and just believed him. Like, he would make a reasonable informed statement and that would be it, people accepted it as the truth. I’ve heard this is a universal experience of transmen, which is interesting as they are often shorter and smaller yet still find this advantage.