Thing about Grindr is that it's straight-up sex. Or rather, gay sex. It's a way to avoid the stupidly cliché and female-centric way of doing dating, even if just to get dick and ditch. I've read enough random tidbits about people chasing trannies, and they actually use Grindr a fair bit, but that's because people go on there thinking "I pass as whatever people consider a shemale as seen in porn" and just want to get dicked down. They'll likely avoid anything even remotely related to 'transsexual' because that implies gender politics and beliefs; something not at all relevant to a sex app.
Now introduce a girl with a weak spine who wants to look like Justin Bieber age 16. Shitty haircut, wifebeater, and snapback on backwards. "Aw rite dawg, one of the bois". Except an actual boy; underage and unappealing, much like how M2F trannies love to dress the part of a polka-skirted 10 year old in stockings. If they pass as dudes, they've got no dick. If they don't, they'll belittle you over why you should fuck them regardless.
I can see why high-profile South American 'shemale' escorts don't describe themselves as anything but a boy with modifications. They want to avoid all this shit, and they actually pass all the while.
Eva Tiamat Medusa, from Bruni, Texas has spent more than $60,000 (£42,000) to resemble a dragon - complete with a forked tongue, tattooed scales and eight 'horns' on her head.
www.dailymail.co.uk
Imagine walking in on your vice president looking like that, likely way too influential and important to immediately sack.