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Consider: rural Florida.
Rural Florida is way less transphobic than a place like Cornell.
I grew up intersex in the former. I arrived at the latter with a beard and transitioned to avoid the wall discrimination that appeared when my boss raped me.
I'd rather be intersex in Florida than anything but a cis white woman at Cornell.
At least the rest of NY isn't nearly as bad as that shithole. Unfortunately Florida seems to have taken a turn as well while I've been up here, and I don't want to end up underwater.
So, again, you’re talking about a highly specific community that is way more likely to be filled with young progressives who are still getting through the edgy teen phase but are also far more likely to come from privileged, white backgrounds. I have never argued that there are places which go opposite to the comic but that’s not how society at large behaves.
How well did you pass in Florida? There’s also the sad fact that people not accepting you will see you as a man and their monkey brains will run with that, especially if you’re bigger and/or have a deeper voice.
I don’t really know how you’ve just somehow missed the entire, long history of oppression and dismissal of women by whatever excuse fits in the moment.
I was very fluid in my gender presentation as a child, and would at times pass as either.
Privileged, white backgrounds are usually the most bigoted, and least welcoming to people like me, so I feel like we're talking past each other here.
I've seen more oppression by women than by men in my lifetime.