The 3 Types Of People You Meet As A Trans Person On OKCupid

On one of the first days in January, I sat staring both optimistically and skeptically at a Chinese zodiac website that just one year before accurately predicted the complete destruction of every aspect of my life. This year, it said, would bring a whirlwind of positive change: This site is two for two now. My 2015 kicked off with a pretty major milestone: I began medically transitioning into a female body. I'd spent all winter debating whether this was the right step for me, but once I finally started hormone replacement therapy, I immediately felt it was the best decision I'd made my entire life. Finally, with the appropriate amount of estrogen flowing through my bloodstream, everything started making sense. Everything except my dating life. I joined OK Cupid a few years ago to cast a wider net and catch the kinds of people I wasn't meeting through "traditional" avenues. I started on the site as a gender non-conforming gay male and then moved into being a pansexual genderqueer person. Both of those spaces availed me access to the "cool" queer and trans people of whom I wasn't meeting in the three-dimensional world. While not many of my dates turned into anything, at least I had the encouragement that there are cool people who are actually interested in me. Unfortunately, this all changed when I started identifying as a woman. The caliber of people who now talk to me on the site are... problematic at best. Most people who message me now fall into one of these categories:...
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