Please explain the difference between a 'transgender woman' and a 'trans woman'.
Bear in mind that the categories were essentially created by cis folk in academia, not by people included in the transgender monicker. Also bear in mind that monkers spoke to this point in the very first post she made on the forum.
It's almost better to say what transgender isn't. It isn't a category of a unified group.
If I set a group and call it believers, and within it, I include every faith, it doesn't make those faiths all the same. A Witness is not a Muslim.
Transgender is a similar container. The word ''transgender'' has differing definitions and explanations depending on where you look. The nearest to a unifying definition is that it is an umbrella term covering a range of identities. There is some debate about where it includes drag queens. For me drag queens and drag kings are professional performers. That is not to say that they don't enjoy what they do, but it is more related to gay man culture. To do this day, some gay men call each other by women's names, or even ''bitch'', but they do not consider themselves female or women. It's performative. They don't perform this because they despise women.
This range of identities is said to cover HPWs, CDs, TVs, - all of whom say they are men. Sexual preferences are wide, from playing alone, liking women, liking men, liking others like them, to ''lock up your brooms''.
Also under the transgender are trans women - this includes transitioners who have committed to ''the journey'' and those who have transitioned with a GRC. Some trans women complete hormones, surgery, etc, but they don't apply for a GRC, often because they are in a long term marriage where both partners wish to continue the marriage.
The key to understanding is that all people have different motives and drivers.
So trans women with a GRC are a category under transgender and a category under women.
Don't shoot me, I'm only the messenger here answering your question. I wish the answer was more simple.
To refresh about your prison data pictograph, the point made by monkers was this, trans women were not counted by the prison service in the cohort of ''transgender women'' but in the cohort of ''women'' because of the legal distinction in the form of the deeming provision established in the GRA.
Otherwise the data presentation in that pictogram was flawed. Actually not just flawed, but a wilfully manipulative representation of the official data.
If you care about your credibility, you'll care about the truth, revisist the pictograph and read again what monkers explained. Otherwise you can just be like CXRAndy.