I honestly don't get the FTM who use dating apps pretending to be a straight man. It's 50+ photos picked from a random algorithmic men in a certain age range vs this girl pretending to be a man. The ONLY reason I ever second guess myself is because I'm on a dating app and just saw 50 photos of real men so my mind is not expecting an anomaly which it clearly identifies as an anomaly. Now I'm going back to look at all tell tale signs because I know it must be a woman.
With enough filters and makeup, you can make a man vaguely look identifiable as a "woman" but almost always a Kim K type woman - never the average everyday woman.
You cannot make a female look like a man. You just cannot - unless they're old and fat and wrinkly. The woman who won Dragula as a drag king, despite her illnesses, does in fact look pretty haggard with strong laugh lines which HELPS build the appearance in drag. It's still definitely always a woman though.
Buck Angel has "semi-passed" in that when I was younger and naive, I felt they looked like "a man". They have decent facial hair, kept their head shaved and had those strong jowls / laugh lines. To me, they're kind of ugly in a masculine way.
I also use the words "they/them" for people like Buck Angel and Jazz Jennings because truly at a certain point you have done so much irreversible permanent damage you will never live as a man or a woman in society again. They are the third sex, they are the others, Buck cannot ever be a woman again. They destroyed their body. It's like trying to make Michael Jackson look like the Thriller era in 2005. But they absolutely have never been a man and will not die as a man.
As a hetero woman I like both rugged men and the glam rockers - but they're two seperate types of people.
If you're speaking on 80s glam metal specifically - those guys are super not gay, surprisingly. Their entire brand was sex, drugs and rock n' roll to its most exaggerated, sleaziest form. And it is a brand - Nikki Sixx brought it into a more mainstream idea on the Sunset Strip in very early Motley Crue days and other bands followed because Motley Crue got all the drugs and the women. No one ever attempted to put together an outfit on the basis of looking like a woman - they just ... did. It was a byproduct of the costuming, hence why Steven Tyler wrote Dude Looks Like A Lady about Vince Neil. And literally a year later they changed their entire brand to bikers and released Girls Girls Girls.
This also happened again during the scene/emo days where guys started growing their hair out, straightening it, wearing eyeliner, "girl jeans" however some of those guys... kind of gay, possibly future troons.
What 80s glam metal guy trooned out? I kind of want to know just for curiosities sake if any of them ever went further than just regular gay dudes (which is not a regular occurrence besides the most obvious answer - who definitely always looked the absolute most homosexual of the 80s metal IMO.)