This is just plain transphobia.
Person used filters and makeup to make themselfs look better and younger. This never ever happened before! OMG, call the police!!!!!
Person used filters and makeup to make themselfs look better and younger. This never ever happened before! OMG, call the police!!!!!
This article is not a tech demo or deep dive, it's gawking at a man "pretending" to be a woman. It reinforces the idea that trans women are just men "pretending" to be women.
It's not too many steps removed from something like Ace Ventura, which went out of its way to explicitly frame trans women as "gross". Yes, over time media has gotten a little less explicit about this, but there's definitely a long tail of media that's like, "Look at this weird trans/trans-adjacent person over here..."
I don't understand how someone who wins the lottery feels, and no amount of education will change that either.
At some point we need to realize that it's not someone else's job to validate whatever feelings and internal shit that we got going on in our heads. At the end of the day, it's not anyone else's job to "identify" with your preferences, and if someone thinks that your sexual preferences are gross, that's actually OKAY.
I think many people assume that everyone needs to be okay with everyone else's preferences, but not only is that totally unrealistic, but what does it accomplish? You're not going to rid malice and evil from the world by accepting everyone's preferences, so what are we trying to solve by "educating" everyone about transgenderism?
If 50 year old woman presents herself younger, it is not big deal. We see it every day in celebrity magazines.
So this person presenting themselves under different gender, is the only reason people talk about it.
I think this was only a news story in Japan because feminism / LGBTQ rights in Japan have a long way to go before people feel comfortable being themselves in public.