No they are not. They are men pretending to be women.
And transgenders are the only ones who get to pretend. Pedophiles can't pretend to be 13, you can't pretend to be a different ethnic group, you can't pretend to be a Sovereign Citizen, and you certainly can't pretend to be an alien ambassador with diplomatic immunity.
Of course you can't have that, because at some point one human can identify as superior to another, and we're right back to slavery, though it could be argued that transgenders are well on the way to putting us there.