
and this part is going to sound like a performative humblebrag fakepost, but the incident which led to both of them repeatedly singling me out at the store was how one time I chewed out the ex-coworker for being creepy as fuck to a different trans guy and then gossiping about him behind his back. literally I went from “oddity” to “target” in the eyes of these two because I gave them shit for publicly objectifying & misgendering another trans man
so it’s like… the change in attitude wasn’t because “oh my bad, if you’re not a woman then I won’t be a misogynist towards you”. clocking me as transmasc was in fact one of the main reasons he was being such a dipshit to me but now that he seemingly doesn’t recognize me as that same person, he’s just responding to me based on his brain reflexively categorizing me as “that’s a dude”… cis people’s worldviews are lowkey morbidly fascinating