One of the afper trans people ran into this attitude a few years ago when he was in much the same mental place as you regarding gender identity, and of course when he vented about it on afp, a lot of the cis-women *did* take serious offence at the clinic's idea that wearing trousers (and various other things) was so unfeminine as to make anyone who did them obviously really mentally a man. But afp has rather broader ideas of gender identity than does the tabloid press. :-(
For reference, I think the last time I wore a skirt was before I started the new job last July, and I'm a cis-woman with an extremely firm female gender identity. I just don't feel like conforming to Victorian concepts of what that gender identity ought to be interested in.
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One of the afper trans people ran into this attitude a few years ago when he was in much the same mental place as you regarding gender identity, and of course when he vented about it on afp, a lot of the cis-women *did* take serious offence at the clinic's idea that wearing trousers (and various other things) was so unfeminine as to make anyone who did them obviously really mentally a man. But afp has rather broader ideas of gender identity than does the tabloid press. :-(
For reference, I think the last time I wore a skirt was before I started the new job last July, and I'm a cis-woman with an extremely firm female gender identity. I just don't feel like conforming to Victorian concepts of what that gender identity ought to be interested in.