>>40349181I was, and I can tell you it was a different world to transition in (2003). Gatekeeping made it a long process with a lot of work but if you weren't egregiously visible it was something 95% of people just didn't pay much attention to.
Other than evangelicals, which weren't really the mainstream political force they are now after the 90s or so, no one really had very strong feelings about trannies except laughing at them in the media. The legal pathways were clear and doable, I had name/ID/SS#/passport within a couple years with SRS.