[pavulon]

Being willing to offer something up is appreciated.

I can't know but after thinking about this stuff for quite awhile, I've come to the conclusion that unless you're living it or around the situation consistently, it's not likely that someone will understand it. That people are willing to go to great lengths to try to address it as best they are able (surgery, hormones, living with the stigma or threat of stigma...) lends them a fair bit if credibility.

However, I see the greater point of the article being that here is a group of people who have now been on both sides of a reality--male and female. That in realizing their drive to become male, the other side of the coin is not everything they thought it was or would or should be...or perhaps nobody can see it until they are.

I'd hope to read another article about people who have gone the reverse direction because it could speak more to some pretty fundamental life experiences.