• dan@upvote.au
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    7 months ago

    I’ve worked with a few before.

    The thing is that unfortunately women receive a lot of harassment online, so they’ll often use a gender-neutral or male-sounding username online, and maybe won’t post as much so as to not draw attention to themselves.

    I’m not sure why it’s more common to see trans women in online communities though. Maybe in general they’re more thick-skinned or are less worried about posting online, or maybe just spend more time online in general? Not sure.

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      7 months ago

      Plenty of trans folks go harder on gender expression online because they have difficulties to do so IRL, even if being female presenting tends to result in more issues.