Originally posted by: return_to_hades
You could tell Elliot Page was a man even when he was playing roles like Kitty Pryde and Juno? How do you tell trans men from the butch lesbian? How did you come to possess the most sophisticated dar?
Firstly, I haven't seen either of those movies, in fact, I've never seen any of Elliot's movies.
In my childhood, there were one or two guys in my class who were very feminine, behaved and talked like girls and had very feminine mannerisms. One even reportedly liked to put on make up. The class teased them and called them "ladyboys". It was cruel and shameful, but there was no awareness about it back then.
Today I know that they were trans. Back then I/we did not know that word, but we did know that they were like girls trapped in boy's bodies. We could see that they talked and behaved like girls.
THIS is what I meant when I said that transwomen are easily identifiable from their mannerisms (when they've not transitioned).
Your Elliot Page example is not valid here since I haven't seen his movies, nor do I know him in person to identify how his mannerisms were prior to coming out.
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