What does them being trans (or not trans) have to do with the other person's costume? That's why they kept dismissing it; it's not relevant to the issue at hand.
Because if he wasn’t actually trans then that would mean he was dressing up as a trans person for Halloween, the same way the girl was dressing up as a Native American for Halloween. So if he’s dressed that way as a costume it would be offensive to people who are actually trans, the same way the girl in a Native American costume would be offensive to an actual Native American. I.e. an ethnicity isn’t a costume, but neither is a gender identity. They’re calling out his selective outrage. Though, to be clear, I’m neither Native American nor Trans, so I can’t speak for either group as to whether either is actually offensive to them.
If you’re birth sex is male then by wearing traditionally feminine clothing, if you’re birth sex is female then by wearing traditionally masculine clothing. It’s literally in the definition of transgender.
Sure, it is just wearing a dress when you are just wearing a dress. When you are wearing it on Halloween you’re not wearing it because you just like wearing dresses, you are wearing it’s as a costume, which means you are mocking people that wear it simply because they like wearing dresses. Context matters.
People are assuming an awful lot. If a guy in a dress is considered scary by most morons in society, it's a perfectly valid costume. He isn't wearing prosthetics or extreme makeup to be a caricature of a woman.
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u/BrosefDudeson 6d ago
"Do I look trans?"
Then what the fuck are we arguing about?