Tags: two-type taxonomy
Status: draft
-I had occasion to sing a little song at a party recently, whereupon a trans woman who was present immediately asked if I was gay. (I'm not.) When talking with her later (mentioning that our mutual friend had been trying to convince me that I was trans—which kind of backfired, incidentally,)
+I had occasion to sing a little song at a party recently, whereupon a trans woman who was present—let's call her "Karen"—immediately asked if I was gay. (I'm not.) When talking with her later, mentioning that our mutual friend had been trying to convince me that I was trans (which kind of backfired, incidentally, but that's another story), she stressed that anyone who sung like me had to be either gay or a trans woman.
-People on the androphilic MtF spectrum tend to have naturally feminine vocal mannerisms; people on the autogynephilic spectrum have a natrual incentive to fake it. (And I _do_ fake it.) With neither the inclination nor the incentive, normal straight men _don't sing like me_, and
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+Later, another friend who had been present for the latter exchange and I agreed that this was bizarre—like, that's not what those words mean! Gay men are men who are attracted to men; trans women were males who decided to transition.
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+But _we were wrong_ and _Karen was right_. People on the androphilic MtF spectrum tend to have naturally feminine vocal mannerisms; people on the autogynephilic spectrum have a natrual incentive to fake it. (And I _do_ fake it.) With neither the inclination nor the incentive, normal straight men _don't sing like me_, and Karen was _exactly right_ to pick up on this, even
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