So I live in a fairly rural, socially conservative place. I've followed this issue for my concerns about sport, feminism and the nature of being. But it's all been hypothetical as I don't know any trans people in real life. All this talk about "passing", being able to tell transwomen straightaway etc.
Until the other day. I got out of the car, looked around and about two rows down, someone else got out. And immediately my brain said "That's a man in a skirt". Didn't need to ponder, it was immediate. The bare legs were wrong, they weren't women's legs. And I was outside, metres away and I could tell in seconds. I always thought you might be exaggerating and I am rubbish with humans but I could tell straightaway.
It must be terrifying in prison and extremely disturbing in a refuge or rape crisis centre.