There's a significant difference between "passing" and being traditionally attractive.

50% of cis people are below average looking. I guarantee if you poll people and ask them to rate themselves at least 75% or more would think they are above average. And I don't care. If someone is happy with the way they look and confident, then good for them.

The point is the majority of cis people don't look like Brad Pitt/Ryan Reynolds/ Channing Tatum and Jennifer Aniston/Gal Gadot/Scarlett Johansson. We trans people may aim to look more like our closest family members of our desired gender. If we were born that sex then that's kind of what we'd look like. Not necessarily movie stars.

But also all of the people I mentioned spend thousands and thousands of dollars with trainers, dieticians, beauty consultants, yoga instructors, make up artist, plastic surgeons, hair transplant surgeons, and so on to keep looking like that. It's a very unrealistic standard that we, all people cis and trans, are pelted with.

We probably are just self conscious about little things involving secondary sex characteristics that the majority of people, and this is what OP is saying, don't even pay attention to. If we really stared at cis people we'd see that some guys can't grow a beard and some women have large brows. It's genetic variation of the human species. But most cis people just don't bother looking at those things. They don't think about it because it doesn't bother them the way it does us. They don't have dysphoria.

Exceptions being that there certainly are cis people with body image issues. And whatever it is that bothers them about their body they'll probably notice on other people. They'll unfortunately compare themselves to other people.

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