Yeah, huge different between a man play acting as a woman usually for comedic effect to a man claiming to be actually a woman and expecting everyone to treat him like woman right down to the biological aspects of being a woman
Totally true.
In the context of this conversation though, the "drag shows" of the 70's and even 80's that BobR mentioned were of the first sort. Shows put on for entertainment by men, and everyone knew they were men, and treated them as such. I was a little young to have made any of those shows in the 80's but I remember them as a kinda risque entertainment thing, not delusional men performing.
They used to have a drag burlesque show in Key West on Duval that I remember walking past with some Army buddies circa 99 or so. Even then, it was clear that they thought they were men.
This "Trans Women are women" BS seems to have sprung full formed since 2010 or so.