I don’t think anyone would be able to tell she’s trans. It’s either the extreme plastic surgery or the camera that they’re staring at. She looks better than the average patient on Botched. If she thinks she’s getting copped and outed, it’s because she’s being filmed in public, and in a conservative Soviet country.
It’s obvious that Geno and Jasmine are playing it up for ratings, but Nikki seems legitimately insane. No man will sleep with a woman who acts like a teenage boy and begs for sex every ten seconds. If the catch isn’t satisfying, you don’t want the fish.
They handled Gabe respectfully enough, but TLC’s portrayal of Nikki seems offensive and stereotypical.
My whole issue with Nikki isn’t her being trans or her being herself or anything like that whatsoever. It’s the fact that she waited till AFTER having sex multiple times with Justin to tell him “I used to be a man” you can tell how badly that harmed Justin’s inner self. He said he had to spend a time period questioning himself as a man and going through a life crisis lol. She did him dirty. I think had she been upfront from the start he wouldn’t have slept with her and they wouldn’t even be together. He feels morally obligated to stay now because he doesn’t feel very manly. IMO.