a caterpillar that transforms into a butterfly
Caterpillars don't use a process to turn into butterflies.
They inevitably undergo a natural process.
A man or woman does not naturally, nor inevitably, become the opposite sex.
A process would need to be used in order to.
"Trans" distiguishes these as a qualifier(terminology used in Logic); and we are not speaking of trans-Atlantic flights here.
Before transition, and after transition, have their own seperate qualifiers (ie. post-op trans female).
Because that is true.
You can point to the pre-pill, the transition, and the post-pill of MC in the game.
Which means that the change was at a genetic level, not just at a mental / cosmetic / body structure level. So the change was from one extremity to the other, not to a state that consists of aspects of both extremities.
This sounds more like an inadequate process impeding transition.
Transsexuals want that change on a genetic level.
I actually don't know why they want it so badly.
If I woke up a woman tomorrow, there would be some sudden problems, but I wouldn't really care that much.
Video games and coffee would still be video games and coffee.
If I had a wife, then I would care.
I suppose the infinite 'gender-fluid' 'in-between' could also be trans, but not necessarily nor exclusively so.