I might have garbled things earlier by not pointing out I wasn't the same person you responded to. So, I'm not quite understanding what you're saying in response...but maybe that's my fault for being confusing.

When I replied above, I was answering, "What does it mean to be treated like a man?" And I wasn't approaching my answer from an "ideal standpoint" or a standard of being ethical or moral, more of a "what will, empirically, happen to me if I were to pass as a man?"

And while yes, I do think all adults regardless of gender SHOULD be treated equally, the simple fact is that they currently are not.

And I was trying to make a comparison to what you might be familiar with--the distinction between how a child is treated, and how, ideally, an "adult" is treated--and how with a woman, due to our society's gender expectations, a fully adult woman is not always taken seriously or treated with respect regardless of her biological age, and it's rather similar to being treated like a child--seen but not heard. So a difference would be, passing as a man, you're more likely to get that respect, less likely to be treated as child-like.

Understanding how the gender system currently works, and understanding how one will be treated differently when presenting as a man vs. a woman, isn't condoning that women should be treated as lesser. On a personal level, I try to respect others, and I signal-boost things done by women--but I can't cause ALL other people to change their own behavior, so I have to factor that in when I consider myself transitioning in the future. So I know that regardless of any moral or ethical beliefs I have about equality, there will definitely be a change in how I am treated when passing as a man.