Verification is designed to protect both the creator and the client by reducing "catfishing." On major platforms, this typically involves:

Long before Madonna's "Vogue," there was the Harlem Ballroom scene. In the 1980s and 1990s, Black and Latino trans women created "houses" (familial support systems) to compete in balls. They invented categories like "Realness" (the art of passing as cisgender/straight) and "Vogue" (dance battled based on model poses). This subculture birthed modern runway aesthetics, much of pop music choreography, and the vocabulary of "shade," "reading," and "slay."

Guide to Being An Ally to Trans and Nonbinary People - PFLAG