Trans girl: I want HRT because I don't want to go through testosterone puberty.
Transphobes: No, it's probably just a phase and you will grow out of it.
Trans girl as an adult: It wasn't a phase, and I want to be an athlete.
Transphobes: No, you had testosterone puberty.
Trans girl as an adult: Estrogen reverses the advantage and actually gives me a disadvantage because-
Transphobes: No, idc.
as a trans woman, you can’t:
go into sex work because you’re painting the trans community in a bad light,
be excited about your transition because it’s rubbing it in other trans people’s faces,
talk about trans issues online because that’s all you talk about,
be stealth because you’re trying to assimilate and leave the community behind,
be vocal because you don’t speak for all trans women,
be quiet because you stand for nothing and/or don’t care about politics,
show your transition early on because you haven’t actually done the work,
but you can and will eventually set the community back x amount of years