I think gay men (like straight women) are attracted to male voices, stubble, body size etc. Pinning the most excellent cock of all time onto a woman wouldn't do the biz for most gay men.
I agree. And this is what biology is. You cannot change sex, and even the most sophisticated surgery and hormone treatment cannot exactly replicate the appearance of the opposite sex.
Humans are very good at ‘thin slicing’ - picking up a multitude of small subtle clues and combining them often unconsciously to make a judgement call.
Some idle musings... and this is speaking in general terms, I don’t mean any one individual, it seems a little cruel to me to examine how well an individual passes somehow. But anyway...
I do wonder if this is why such a big thing is made of ‘passing.’ It’s effectively saying you can beat the inbuilt systems we all have?
There’s also the ‘uncanny valley’ effect where something that looks almost as you expect but not quite is more striking and disturbing than something that looks obviously fake. This is often used as a concept in robotics and animation - things like computer generated faces that are almost perfect are far more disturbing to humans than obviously cartoonish ones. Anyone who games a lot will have seen this too and I think this is why even though they can get those graphics almost perfect they still animate with a lot of exaggerated features and alien morphology - it’s just too uncanny valley to have it almost perfect.
You’ve probably seen it too in movies recently and TV - Christopher Lee being resurrected in Star Wars, Carrie fisher’s face being stuck onto another actress, and in Westworld (which actually did it very well) Anthony Hopkins as a young man. Iron man as well in one movie.
All these almost perfect Replicas/portrayals invoke this response and I wonder if this is something we have when we look at people trying to pass for the opposite sex? It’d be a very interesting research project...