The difference in pay between FTMs and MTFs was 1.5% in this study, and the article seems to suggest that this explains the 29% difference in pay between biological men and women. That's just staggeringly disingenuous. If anything, it means that discrimination is responsible for 5% of the pay difference between men and women, and the rest is due to pregnancy, child-rearing choices, intermittent employment, and so on. Note that this is not what I'm arguing. I'm just saying that the data in question better support that conclusion than the one the article mentions.

Further, fta:

Also, it's harder for MTFs to pass than FTMs: men who become women still have large hands and bigger frames.

If ever there was a case of absolute symmetry, it's this one. Unless, of course, women who become men don't have small hands and small frames! This article is mind-bogglingly vapid.

I know. Someone was wrong on the internet. I should just relax.