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<blockquote data-quote="Gradine" data-source="post: 7439680" data-attributes="member: 57112">Neither case is particularly universal to the modern trans experience. I would say that I personally have met more trans-identified individual who don't give a flying f--- about &quot;passing&quot; than I have those that do. I would imagine that a significant number of trans men and trans women who do concern themselves with &quot;passing&quot; probably wouldn't even self-identify as &quot;trans&quot;, at least not in public, though their reasons for doing so are also pretty varied (they might consider themselves a cis-gendered individual who was born with wrong biological sex, for instance, or any number of other reasons related to societal guilt and shame; or even fear; on average more than two trans individuals are murdered every month in the U.S., and some states still allow so-called &quot;trans panic&quot; defenses to be used in trials).Again, the most important thing I can caution against is any assumption that there is some kind of universal &quot;trans&quot; experience.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gradine, post: 7439680, member: 57112"] Neither case is particularly universal to the modern trans experience. I would say that I personally have met more trans-identified individual who don't give a flying f--- about "passing" than I have those that do. I would imagine that a significant number of trans men and trans women who do concern themselves with "passing" probably wouldn't even self-identify as "trans", at least not in public, though their reasons for doing so are also pretty varied (they might consider themselves a cis-gendered individual who was born with wrong biological sex, for instance, or any number of other reasons related to societal guilt and shame; or even fear; on average more than two trans individuals are murdered every month in the U.S., and some states still allow so-called "trans panic" defenses to be used in trials). Again, the most important thing I can caution against is any assumption that there is some kind of universal "trans" experience. [/QUOTE]

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