The thing about transbians that I find most interesting is how omnipresent they are online and in the institutions that claim to represent us but how they scuttle into the shadows before the general public. Like Lia Thomas was an actual revelation to most people. And generally the creepy rapey transbians have enough wherewithal to not say the things they say to us in our spaces on primetime TV. Instead they hide publicly behind things like “trans kids” and “Don’t Say Gay” and keep the spotlight and scrutiny off themselves. And they also allow HSTS to be the image they want the general public to think of when they think of MTFs. Trans women like Valentina Sampaio, Blaire White, and even Laverne Cox are who they want you to think of when you think of trans women in men’s and women’s prisons when the actual trans women in question are the Jessica Yaniv, Chris Chan, and Karen White types.

This whole omnipresent and omnipotent but having low visibility aspect to them is so insidious. And ofc they would argue that they are everywhere but they pass so we don’t notice but we know that’s not true. Transbians online are overwhelmingly obsessed with posting images of themselves and they are clearly not passing as women in more ways than one. Which does bring me back to the idea that so many of them are likely not “trans” in their day-to-day lives in which they live as normal men with a hidden cross-dressing habit.”