The Dark Side of Transmaxxing: Men switching genders for ‘female privileges’
Being a man was too much hard work, so I became a woman; inside the transmaxxing trend where men swap gender to get ‘female’ benefits like cheaper car insurance, free meals and sex
Transmaxxing often reinforces gender stereotypes for personal gain.
Crippling fear of walking home alone in the dark. The deafening sound of the biological clock ticking. The ever-growing gender pay gap.
Sometimes it can feel as though there aren’t always many benefits to being a woman in 2025 – as generation after generation are discovering the hard way that we can’t, in fact, ‘have it all’.
But if you were to believe everything you read on internet forums, modern-day womanhood can simply be defined by its perks.
They include cheaper car insurance, free meals and an all-round ‘easier’ life once you’ve bagged a ‘high-value’ man – i.e. someone who is wealthy and attractive, thereby making them ‘deeply desirable’.
So it’s perhaps unsurprising that men who fear they don’t meet this criterion are growing increasingly envious of women’s position in the dating sphere – and going to extreme lengths to achieve it.
Welcome to the world of transmaxxing: where ‘low-value’ males, who are struggling with their gender identity or former incels, are transitioning to females to cash in on on the benefits of womanhood.
The ‘Transmaxxing Manifesto’, which was written by the movement’s anonymous Swedish leader Vintologi, outlines how one of the biggest advantages of becoming a woman is the ‘superiority of female aesthetics’ and how this can be used to ‘extract resources from males’.
On top of this, the document, which is readily available on transmaxxing forums, also highlights how the transition gives them ‘access to female spaces’ that are ‘cleaner and generally more pleasant’ – arguing that ‘males are disgusting’.
Reinforcing gender roles for ‘personal gain’
By its very nature, transmaxxing reinforces traditional gender roles, where men are the primary earners and women, who have ‘easier’ lives and less responsibilities, support them.
One section of the manifesto reads: ‘Not everyone can be successful and independent, some individuals need to just be subservient to a master, they exist to be used and give pleasure to other people.
‘This will be the end station for some individuals that transitioned from male to female. Better than homelessness, I suppose.’
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Last year, ‘transmaxxer’ Sammy appeared in the Channel 4 documentary Transmaxxer Life Uncovered – where she defined a man as ‘dominant, successful, outgoing, confident and resilient’.
She then added that none of these stereotypical attributes could be used to describe her before her transition – as she went on to characterise her old life as ‘slightly incel-esque’ and ‘isolated’.
Looking back on an old photo of herself during a fishing trip, Sammy – who is in her early twenties and previously always been unlucky in love – added: ‘It wasn’t a great time in my life.
‘I wouldn’t look at that and think, “yeah, that is a masculine dude”.’
But while she was never deemed what is considered a ‘high value’ man, Sammy has reaped the benefits of being a woman for personal gain.
Since being on hormone replacement therapy, Sammy revealed she had been offered ‘a lot’ of free meals and drinks from men – and now has a steady boyfriend.
She added: ‘I don’t want to spend 70 hours a week working or get a personal trainer to become a “true man”.’
Later on in the clip, the documentary subject joked that she had a ‘lot to learn’ if she was going to become a ‘traditional stay-at-home wife’ while she dished out a takeaway.
‘[Transmaxxing] definitely isn’t for everyone,’ Sammy’s boyfriend noted. ‘But if it makes you happier, then I don’t see why some people wouldn’t do it.’
When documentary host Ben Zand highlighted how cheaper car insurance was listed as one of the perks of transitioning, Sammy replied: ‘You should take every advantage given to you […]
‘I don’t think that’s a primary reason to transition but it’s definitely a secondary reason.
Is it better to be a woman than a ‘low value’ man?
In addition, transmaxxing has also become intertwined with the incel movement – as transitioning to a woman is deemed preferable to being a ‘low value’ man.
A 2024 Department of Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy report defined incels (involuntary celibates) as a ‘primarily online sub-culture community of men who forge a sense of identity around their perceived inability to form sexual or romantic relationships’ and ‘blame society for a perceived failure to include them’.
Elsewhere in the ‘Transmaxxing Manifesto’, the author included alleged ‘success’ stories from ex-incels – who claimed transitioning to a woman gave them access to the ‘high worth men’ they couldn’t be themselves.
Additionally, the document also argues that transitioning to become a woman makes dating ‘easier’ as there are more people who could be romantically interested in them.
A transmaxxer known only as ‘Val’ was quoted: ‘My attempts at dating were abysmal and it impacted my self esteem. I felt like I was a failure as a man and that I would die an incel virgin […]
‘Now currently 9 months on HRT and have been absolutely loving the changes, far more noticeable than what I was doing prior.
‘I love that I am more expressive and in tune with my emotions, I make deeper connections with friends and a much easier time talking to women!’
One wrote: ‘Former incel, current happy trans girl.’
Another added: ‘A huge amount of the reason I was incel was because I was a closeted trans girl.’
In June 2023, German transmaxxer Tina appeared on the Incel podcast – where she revealed she transitioned to ‘escape inceldom’.
The 25-year-old decided to transition in 2021 – just two days after they discovered the transmaxxing community online.
Having studied engineering at school and college, Tina didn’t have much experience with women- but took an interest in a fellow university student he met through a book club.
Speaking to host Naama Kates, she recalled: ‘I tried my best to get together with this girl, which horribly failed.’
Following their break-up, Tina was inspired to research how much success women have in dating versus men – adding: ‘What we can observe across the board is that women, by literally every metric, are somewhat more successful in terms of dating and sexual things than men.’
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