Quote from: Squirrel698 on April 23, 2012, 07:46:56 AM
Wait, are you saying that people you don't have the right kind of face shape are faking being transgender? 
Oh no! Dont get your boxers in a bunch dood as I think she is merely "thinking aloud." (I hope)

I remember years ago I started noticing that most people tend to act the way they look. For instance, a sweet and caring friend may have a caring face, a nerd has a nerdish apppearance, a super lesbian may appear quite masculine or at least give unintentional visial cues...and so on. In short it's as if we get cast to play the characters of our very own lives. I guess I'm not the only one to notice the phenomenon of how people often look just how you think they would!
I've thought extensively about the reasons we can so often draw some fairly accurate conclusions based on stereotyping. Clearly there are millions of years of evolutionary cues we use instinctively for survival, for example in identifying healthy mates, or trustworthy friends, but we humans are such complex creatures that it becomes right complicated!!
Judging by appearance is a simple correlation, and of course therefore doesn't prove causation, but it's possible that people either 1) find a social niche based on their self image and perception 2) appearance is effected by factors like health, hormone levels, etc which may just as easily affect changes in mood and brain function and 3) the most likely scenario is some combination of a few elements
Though it maybne tough to admit it EVERYONE uses appearance cues in making judgment calls EVERY DAY...it's a fascinating part of being human!