Personally, I recall the first few agps, before I or society at large knew what they were, emerging in the pages of Bizarre magazine in the 90s-00s. I recall that they were mostly involved in porn or extreme “arts”, but it was pretty clear they were trying to mold themselves into a postmodern post reality creature.
One or two even made the claim of gynos not realizing that they had a constructed approximation of a vagina.
I guess that would have been more to do with a greatly lower number, politeness and a genuine want to not upset an unpredictable person, rather than fear of losing their career then though.
There was also the occasional readers letter complaining about the pre-ops who enjoyed being chicks with dicks. They would claim that true transsexual people were disgusted by their own genitals.
Buck Angel was in it a few times too.