trans men's pre-transition experience often puts them at the mercy of this sort of ostracising behaviour even if they haven't realised they're trans yet. other girls are so good at detecting when something is 'off' about you, long before you do
This triumph of “lived experience” over study has been disastrous for political analysis as a whole. Living your life as a certain group gives you no real expertise in analyzing their struggles and doesn’t make you an authority on the political of philosophical study of them.