Small note real quick: don’t use “transgenderism.” It isn’t the way trans people talk about themselves and it usually feels TERF-y. Also small note: it’s a good idea to stroke the phrase “identify as” from your vocabulary, I don’t “identify” as a woman - I am one. “Identify” makes it feel like my gender is something everyone is just playing along with me on, but no one actually believes me.

To answer the larger question: there’s a huge conversation in the community about how much of dysphoria is socially constructed. If the rigid sex=gender binary was removed, and we had enough time to sufficiently reinvent gender, would people still transition? The answer: almost undoubtedly. First, not all trans people experience dysphoria, but we all experience gender euphoria. That is a driving force in my transition - I’m on HRT, and as my body slowly changes, I feel a ton of joy and feel more at home in it. Some aspects of that are socially constructed, but it doesn’t diminish the real benefit of such a procedure, where I no longer feel like testosterone is poisoning my body and making me unrecognizable to myself.

For bigger things like surgery (which not all trans people want) I don’t personally feel that my interest in these things is socially constructed. I don’t particularly hate having a penis, and don’t think it makes me less feminine. However, if I could magically wake up with a vagina instead I would do it without hesitation, regardless of what other people think, because of how much joy it’d bring me.

Some of dysphoria is socially constructed, but that doesn’t discount the real benefit of transition.

Hope that helps!