I look WAY better as a girl.
As a guy, I was fat, half-bald, and the only thing the least bit attractive about me was my personality. But if you ask me, everything about me physically just looked wrong. My hair always looked awful, and all of my body features just looked oddly out of proportion for some reason. I had rather small hands and feet, pretty much no muscles whatsoever, and a very strange build where I stored most of my body fat in my extremities, "man boobs," and back. My girlfriend told me that I looked "cute" back when we were still dating, but she's pretty much the only one who EVER told me that. That single very vague half-compliment was the only one that I ever received from anyone appearance-wise. Aside from that and the usual "you're such a handsome young man" or "you look sharp" comments from family members that every guy receives when they get dressed up in a suit and tie, not a single other person ever complimented me on my appearance.
Post-transition, though, everything just seemed to fall into place. And the sheer amount of compliments I have received has been overwhelming. A couple of my cis friends have told me that they're jealous of my legs, for the first time in my life I've gotten compliments from strangers, (not a lot, but a few at least,) people telling me that I look pretty when I first meet them, and don't even get me started on my trans friends. They seriously eye me over like a piece of meat.
So yeah. Pretty damned big improvement. I'm still near the bottom of the social ladder compared to the average person IMO, and it's not like any guys stare at me like they do with most cis-girls my age, but the fact that ANYONE has told me that I look good appearance-wise means an improvement over my old self.
