And HSTSes can be awful to gay men. Maybe it was different back in the day, but now a lot of them are real catty jerks who think getting a chaser boyfriend who swears he’s straight makes them superior to effeminate gay men. They can pass for straight (sort of), they’re not an icky homo anymore.
And then they wind up promoting a culture (intentionally or not) where effeminate gay men aren’t allowed to exist as themselves. They must be eggs. Trevor Moran, who is a gay Youtuber who has long hair and wears a lot of makeup, made a video about how people kept telling him he should be trans, he’d be great and attractive if he were, and generally trying to pressure him into transitioning.
And in the past, if you were trans you were told to up and move and start completely over, there weren’t any big public transitions like now, where people see effeminate men turn into ‘women’ over and over. How do you think that’s going to make a 12 year old boy who already gets made fun of for being girly feel?