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I'm generally not that interested in trans stuff, and haven't really talked to trans people about their subjective experiences of it, but my wife suggested an idea about it the other day that had never occurred to me: I've never heard of a pre-transition trans person express the fear of not 'passing' in the opposite direction -- e.g., a pre-transition trans man, feeling like a man in a woman's body, finds himself in the women's locker room feeling afraid that the other women will detect that he's actually a man, despite his physically gynecoid appearance. If I were to wake up and find my mind 'trapped in a woman's body', I think it would be hard to escape the 'illusion of transparency' -- I'd be paranoid that I'd be found at as not a real woman, no matter how much I looked and sounded like one, because I'm 'essentially' a man. Is this an experience that trans people report?
https://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1756-i-was-transgender-didnt-know-it-6-weird-realities.html Here's a cracked article that seems to shed some light on the question. Yes, obviously it's not the most reliable source, but I'm not convinced that those even exist when it comes to things adjacent to transgenderism, and obviously it's just one guy who admittedly gives plenty of support in his account for the autogynephilia hypothesis.
I feel like I should note that I'm pretty sure the balance of evidence leans against FTM and MTF transgenders being meaningfully the same thing/mirror images of each other. His experience probably doesn't reflect very much on that of the FTM crowd.
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