critique on passing -- what's yr opinion?

[furtherisnow]

I am submitting a piece of writing on "rejecting the need to pass" for Mattilda a.k.a Matt Bernstein Sycamore for her new book which she asks

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[queer_as_tre]

fran, i think that the word "butch" as it has been known to signify a masculine lesbian, has mostly become obsolete with our generation and the following generations. it's been replaced with the more recently popular term "boi" which, if you recall from our riot grrrl days of yore, used to mean a yucky sexist punkrock young male. but now it's been "reclaimed" if you will (i won't) by an uninformed generation of masculine female-born people who are confronted with political pressure to conform to standards of male masculinity. and since it's p.c. to be accepting of anyone who chooses this identity, i think it's more likely that you'd pass as a "boi" than you would as passing for "butch." cuz to me, the word "butch" seems to be associated with physical characteristics and mannerisms that are socially perceived as male, i.e. "is that person a man or a woman?" and the word "boi" seems to be more associated with internally perceived characteristics based on pretending that there is no universal social perception of the concepts of man and woman, i.e. "i bet that person feels like a man inside, whatever that means."
so yeah, i don't think you pass as butch but you probably pass as a boi. but as far as ambiguity, i think you're not masculine or feminine in any traditional sense. your gender reflects a deliberate rejection of feminine traditionality without the social imposition of superficial masculinity. i really like your gender.