as someone that's both transfem and butch-adjacent i've spent way too much time interrogating myself on what transition even looks like for me. i have nothing illuminating to say about this other than it's fuckin annoying to technically be eight years deep into a timeline that feels like it's perpetually just begun.
late addition wrt the concept of passing: when it comes to cis people, outside of safety concerns, i truly and entirely do not care how they see me.
trans people, on the other hand, have to perceive me as one of them or i will Literally Die. which does lead to a lot of self-consciousness and dysphoria that's probably not warranted