Genuine attempt to answer: It's seen as humorous or weird that a man would want to appear to be a young woman. It's unclear in this case whether the person being photographed is trans.
This article is not a tech demo or deep dive, it's gawking at a man "pretending" to be a woman. It reinforces the idea that trans women are just men "pretending" to be women.
It's not too many steps removed from something like Ace Ventura, which went out of its way to explicitly frame trans women as "gross". Yes, over time media has gotten a little less explicit about this, but there's definitely a long tail of media that's like, "Look at this weird trans/trans-adjacent person over here..."
Are you serious? This man used an app to digitally transform his face into someone entirely different. Equating the reaction to this as trans-phobia is probably the single dumbest thing I've read on HN. If I use a filter to make myself look like a dog, am I offending people who identify as dogs? The lengths certain people go to whine and cry victim about everything is really sad.
Is that due to education? Lack of understanding of the trans experience? Given that the number of trans people out there is already fairly small (single digit percentages), I wouldn't expect trans awareness to be wide. Especially internationally.
Well I'm never going to understand any mental state that I don't explicitly live in. I don't understand why someone flips their lid and murders someone, and no amount of education changes that.
I don't understand how someone who wins the lottery feels, and no amount of education will change that either.
At some point we need to realize that it's not someone else's job to validate whatever feelings and internal shit that we got going on in our heads. At the end of the day, it's not anyone else's job to "identify" with your preferences, and if someone thinks that your sexual preferences are gross, that's actually OKAY.
I think many people assume that everyone needs to be okay with everyone else's preferences, but not only is that totally unrealistic, but what does it accomplish? You're not going to rid malice and evil from the world by accepting everyone's preferences, so what are we trying to solve by "educating" everyone about transgenderism?
