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The most vocally trans woman I know reports being abused by guys in middle and high school locker rooms specifically due to insufficient masculinity. She also has some serious baggage due to being continuously measured against her younger sister. This led to what could charitably be called “mommy issues,” but seems very compatible with the impostor syndrome you’re describing.
I suspect self-reports of this nature would be a little uncommon, because it feels like giving in to one of the more smug anti-trans talking points. At the same time, there are definitely people who feel paranoid about getting rejected by their fellow men/women.
If this person is over ~35 I'm gonna go ahead and say that (oddly) this was pretty much the universal experience of middle and high-school boy's locker rooms -- somehow even the bullies get bullied. (now they don't even make dudes shower together, so I'm not sure it's the same)
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