QuoteWhat is needed in society for anyone to function as an individual who has gone through this or is going through this?
The freedom to be left alone. By that I mean that all freedoms really center around being left well alone. To be unhindered in one's progress through life. The problem is often many governments want to wriggle their fingers into the procedures and personal lives of transgendered people. And sometimes for the worse. Then another part of this would be the freedom of those being left well alone, to be allowed to defend their rights to life, liberty, and property. All too often, transgendered people are deprived of life through murder, deprived of liberty through laws against their person or laws that grant businesses a superior status to an individual, deprived of property through the prior two deprivations therein.
QuoteSociologically how difficult is this before/after? Environmentally?
This depends greatly upon who we're talking about. A transsexual person can have it easy if they're lucky to have a good employer or to be sufficiently self-employed. If they're not so lucky, their entire world before and even after will be a torrent of uncertainty. Sometimes a loss of a job can occur. Sometimes a loss of friends and family as well. This is all fairly well known, but I believe I'll leave it to others to expand this point better than I.
