I mean, it's hard to find a good hairdresser. My wife is as trad as it comes in terms of haircuts and she is still glued to the one person she's confident will get her hair right.
Meanwhile, I'm bald.
Yeah but the entire point is that hairdressers get that reaction you're describing from clients who ... well, happen to be women and the person in that comic isn't a woman. That's the entire point, that hairdressers really struggle to respect the gender identity of AFAB trans people. It's super widespread. Every time i look in localized trans online spaces, i keep seeing posts by trans dudes and transmasc nonbinary people who desperately ask for trans inclusive hairdressers in the area because they reliably get a pixie cut every time they explicitly show a picture of a
haircut as an example, and all the explaining doesn't help them at all, it goes exactly like in the picture. Apparently it's super fucking hard to find cooperative hairdressers as a transmasculine person who will just respect your gender instead of trying to feminize you.Prob get better results in that specific regard by going to a men's barber shop
Except when they tell you “we don’t do women’s hair” and show you the door
Then you say "I'm not a woman" and point at the barber's chair (or point at discrimination laws)
Obviously there's specifics to this, but sure, let's do this: if you're nonbinary, go to an NB friendly barbershop if that's a possibility. If there are none close to you, go to a popular shop in a LGBT friendly city instead, and explain you'd like a "men's" haircut. If that's not a possibility, explain to your local barbershop that you'd like a men's haircut, and that hairdressers are less experienced with that. If they are unable to, or you feel uncomfortable, go to a hairdresser and explicitly mention you want a men's haircut, and show a picture, again mention you are comfortable with it being as short as in the pic. If they present something unsatisfactory, say "I'd like you to cut it shorter, please" when they ask whether you're happy. If you don't feel comfortable asking for a gnc haircut, then you'd have to do it yourself.
All avenues exhausted now or did I miss anything?
I wasn’t trying to provoke a debate, I just wanted to complain about transphobia
Oh lmao fair my bad, I misjudged your comment
I had a knee-jerk reaction since I'm used to the reddit types who go "but what if___" because they just wanna be right about something, when that's not conducive to the discussion
I am trad, but I bob my hair once a year in the spring and let it grow out for the rest of the year. It's usually back to my shoulders before I get it cut again. I used to do hair donation and I would get hair dressers who were uncomfortable giving me a short cut all the time. Now if I get one who's uncomfortable I tell the to give me the scissors and I cut my ponytail off myself in front of them. After I do that they know I mean business and get down to giving me the cut I want.
Hey I paid 30 currency for a machine to shave with like 4 years ago. It's not free to be bald, there's some not so obvious hidden costs.
after a certain length it becomes trivial to cut your own hair too. mines down past my waist so i can just see where it needs to be trimmed. 0 dollars for me
It's a shame, because this could actually be kinda funny from the mouth of a trans leftist.
Unrelated but I love their haircut in the third panel, on me I'd love it so much
Everytime I ask the barbers of the world to just cut a little bit off the sides and they always fucking annihilate the hair from orbit
Had a hairdresser get very nervous when asking her to lop off like 2 feet of hair. I had avoided going to one for years because I was nervous they'd try to masculinize my hair style or just go too far and make it too short.
Kinda grateful I found a hairdresser that does pronouns and all that stuff. It made it much easier to appropriate Rika's style from Pokemon. Definitely an improvement on the previous place that when mask-off with their homophobia, transphobia, and misogyny all in the span of one appointment.
