Boundary line

There can be a problematic boundary line between being a masculine woman or feminine man and being transgender. The issue is identifying it in the self and deciding what to do or not. 

Back when the binary was very rigid, gender variant people couldn't explore very much but once we loosened the rules more people stretched the limits of what it means to be a man or a woman. 

However this introduced a new element where many began to very seriously question what their penchant for variance meant and where it's battery limit lay. Some began to transition and succeeded while for others it wasn't the answer at all.

For me the core question comes down to comfort with one's birth sex and whether the person can navigate life within that framework. In a world that has the most malleable view of gender ever I believe this is more than possible. 

Many of us have known people who pushed the envelope of acceptability openly within society and the reception wasn't always kind. However they seemed to have enough self-esteem and courage to suffer the slings and arrows of people who love to mock. It also appears they were comfortable enough with birth sex to continue life that way. 

Today we have expanded a transgender umbrella which doesn't offer easy prescriptive solutions and people with varying degrees of dysphoria (or none at all) are wondering what they are supposed to do once they realize they are 'trans" (whatever their understanding of that is).

Sometimes there isn't that much to do at all besides accept themselves. But ultimately only they can know.