Yeah...
@steff almost every thing I know about hormones and surgeries and the legal environment around name and gender marker changes and all the other nonsense I've had to learn against my will
@anhedonie
Yep. I've had to learn endocrinology, elements of plastic surgery, intra state law, and theories of legal personhood. Just because I'm far more comfortable with tits and in a dress.

@steff @anhedonie

TBQH I enjoyed learning all that shit. What I definitely WON'T EVER enjoy is having to use that knowledge on lazy cishet assholes.

@steff I never wanted to learn all this theory just to be able to understand why everyone treats me like shit, I just wanna be a giggly emptyheaded girlthing 😭

@steff conversely you must put up with this much bullshit* to be allowed to transition and/or be recognized as trans.

*I'm not going to call it smart, you can learn things without being what is generally called smart. What you do have to do is learn and perform enough bullshit to force it to work, which absolutely should not be required.

@steff I must be an outlier in that I think having a grasp on all that means I have a richer life.
@steff the two paths nearly all transfems take seem to be either becoming extremely smart about psychology or learning to computers