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there's this phenomenon that trans folks mostly only hang around with other trans folks online. it has some obvious and deliberate reasons for happening, but a lot of it is a subconscious organic process, it takes one to know one and you can feel it even if it's never said
it's the ritual. it's the gate which you go through, the path of no return, the dark night of the soul that changes you in a way that only those who have gone through it will understand. it's something like that
some extremely annoying person will be like “yeah we can tell because you're ugly and talk about it constantly”
no you don't get it. i only hang out with pseudonymous people with anime avatars. i could see the light emanating from their souls long before i could ever confirm it
it becomes so mundane to you that you stop thinking about it, but it's there
there are maybe a handful of cis(ish) folks i know who do actually pass as trans in this “gut feeling” sense and i'm realising that this is probably because they've undergone a similar ritual purification of the soul. at least two grew up in a cult