>>7743396>In what ways is the transitioned AGP in your example socially a woman?being 'socially a woman' is essentially 'if you were in the waiting room at a gynecologist's, would people stare?' or 'when you go to work/school, what name do people call you?'
a lot of people who are not women, such as closeted trans men (hsts or aap), are socially women
but one way of interpreting this question is 'is she socially a woman or socially a trans woman?', which i think is particularly interesting. a susan's hon is socially a trans woman, although she may insist she passes 100% through the fog of opposite-bdd. eli erlick probably could be socially a woman if she wants, but chooses instead to be socially a trans woman. jazz jennings would almost certainly be socially a woman if she could choose, but that choice kinda got taken out of her hands. a lot of young agp women, whether by choice or by force, are socially trans women where a hsts woman in similar shoes wouldn't be. the 'force' there can be that they literally don't physically pass, but most cis people are pretty blind and they make up 99.8% of the population, so that's rarer than bdd-chans think. more often it's the aforementioned 'something is off about this chick' sense that people get from the gnc-in-ways-not-usually-called-gnc behaviour, that she decided to alleviate by cutting out the middle man and just not going stealth. stealth is usually -- not always! -- less important to trans people of a*p etiologies than those of hsts ones, so it's not as bad as, say, the phenomenon of parents with young transkids who decide to plaster the stories of those transkids all over the news.
>What would happen to passing AGPs? Where would they end up socially?passing agp women, unless they choose otherwise, often just assimilate into society as women at varying degrees of stealth
this is obviously easier if they transitioned at somewhat younger ages than the average agp for a variety of reasons
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