With trans men (i.e., women who take male hormones and try to present as male), there's been a few factors for a while that I've known of, that allow you to clock them.
Like, very short height, wide bottoms, and what I've heard described as the "munchkin voice" (a deepened voice, but one pushed through what I assume is a somehow irreversibly female-formed vocal tract).
I've also heard recently that they tend to be more balding, since male-pattern baldness is carried on the X chromosome, and so, unlike natal men who are XY, the XX-typical women of trans men have double the chance of drawing that card.
But what really got me lately was something that I saw posted on a notoriously toxic internet messaging board, which I came across when I was trying to identify Zizian social media accounts and a Google search kicked up some helpful stuff on there and then I ended up just reading around more broadly.
What someone said is the key key thing that never fails them, is to look at the brow ridge: men have more jutting foreheads and brows around the eye sockets, while in those areas women's faces are flatter, like those of children.
And now, I can't unsee it.
Every single damn time I see a trans man, I hone in on their brow and forehead region, and BAM, you clock them.
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