
I fear many cis men in particular get off on the fantasy of winning over an early- or pre-T trans guy just to coerce him into abandoning the pursuit of medical transition like they actually have some kind of kink for forcibly reprogramming our identities, where they either want to force-feminize a man without abandoning the comfort of straight identity or they view it as an intensified version of “taming the tomboy” fetishism
I remember that my ex was super against me getting any surgery or taking any hormones, and was obsessed when I took my binder off (I was roughly an F cup before my top surgery) and when I dumped him it was the most freeing thing ever, I had my top surgery the next month and I never looked back
I can definitely see how it comes across that way. I’m not trying to say that trans men who have not medically transitioned/are early in their transition are women or are like women. But unfortunately people like the ones I’m speaking in my post do see pre-transition/early transition trans guys that way, and oftentimes they are literally just waiting to hear that you’re early on so they can refer to you as a woman and/or convince you to detransition.