every single person writing meta commentary on classic slasher horror and the nature of the final girl in the modern day wants to be scream soooo fucking bad but fails to understand what makes scream so good. Including modern scream
80% of "passing" is having enough money to purchase the clothes and services that will allow you to pass. Please stop holding being able to stealth up as the pinnacle of trans achievement. That place belongs to surviving. It belongs to finding joy. It belongs to love and community, not people who are rich enough to have professional makeup artists and tailors.
One thing I noticed on my latest rewatch of The Untamed is that the soldier sitting with Wen Qing in the inn where she has the fake fight with Jiang Cheng doesn't call her Wen-guniang - he calls her Qing-guniang, just like Wen-popo and the other Dafan Wen do. You can come up with other explanations, but I think the most straightforward one is that he's one of the Dafan Wen, too - one of her people.
I really like that moment (by which I mean, it makes me 😭) because I think it emphasizes what a terrible position she's in: it's not like there are the "bad Wens," who are fighting for WRH and are from Qishan, versus the "good Wens," who are from Dafan and are all noncombatants. The bodies our protagonists leave behind are "her" people, too: people she grew up with, who love her, and call her by name. There is no side to which she owes only a debt, and no love.