The focus of this study is the making of transgender space in the city of Hong Kong, and its fundamental relation with transgender embodiment and practices. Drawing on Bourdieu’s notions of capital and habitus, it examines how cross-dressers’ place-making not only takes on a diverse and transient form, but embodies the socio-spatial polarization in the broader context. Based on an ethnographic study during 2012 to 2018, two sites of place-making are identified for analysis: ‘Clubhouse’ and the neighborhood of Sham Sui Po, and the hotel and bar areas in Wan Chai. A juxtaposition of different sites of body transgendering prompts the question of how difference is embodied, managed and performed in the city of Hong Kong. Attention to the roles of place and class habitus will complicate our theoretical understanding about gender passing by highlighting the complex processes of negotiation and investment, as well as the materiality and spatiality of particular passing practices.