Other notes from LA Tinder: the trans girls are extremely passing (and honestly, so are the cis girls) and say, in the first two lines of the profile that gets displayed over the first picture, that they are trans girls, because they have clearly been burned by guys who didn’t click through to read

This contrasts with Portland, where so much of the time you certainly don’t need to read the text to clue in, tending to a let’s be charitable and say nonbinary genderfluid vibe, where you get the sense they just rolled out of bed, put on lipstick, and flipped the switch to “F”