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Recently I wrote a post concerning the term “passing” and it’s relevance to transgender women and/or cross dressers today. Georgette wrote in with this response:
“I’m not sure the idea of “passing” will ever go away. I see so many on-line posts of Trans People still asking/worrying about it. And it is not just transgender women, many younger trans men are asking the same. The ones that give up and say they will never pass say that’s OK as I will own being a transgender woman. But i wonder if they could pass would they still own being a trans woman.”
First of all, thanks for the comment. In my experience, most all of the transgender women I knew who readily passed, all went stealth and were never heard from again. Of course, my disclaimer is my examples came from “back in the day” when going stealth was the only way to go. In other words, stealth meant being invisible to the public than being anything other than a cis woman.
I have two specific examples of trans women who closely followed each other in their transitions. In fact, I think their genital realignment surgeries came in the same year. Both of them had an advantage in that they had natural feminine tendencies and passed very easily. Yes, I was quite envious as I struggled to work with the qualities I did have to get by Through it all, as I tried to come to grips with my gender identity, I was able to…
