>>39468036I partially agree with this. I agree in the sense that the phrase "passing" implies that you are fooling people, puts all the onus on trans people to make their transness invisible to get treated as their expressed gender, and implicitly reifies misogynistic ideas about how women should look.
Buuuuuut, I still deeply need other people to instinctively read me as a woman for the sake of my physical and social dysphoria so even if the concept of "passing" is problematic I can't avoid it's necessity for my mental health.