The answer to the question "does it look normal?" very much depends on the knowledge of the person you are asking. It is astonishing how limited knowledge of the female vulva there is, among cis women, cis men and trans women as well. Even among doctors. There are of course culturally historical reasons for this. Anyway, unless one has seen many vulvas many times, all of them look mostly the same and the trans ones do not seem out of place. It's like for a central European, all Japanese people look the same
. Also it is similar to when you start doing Photoshop manipulation of photos, you start noticing such manipulations in publications where you'd notice none before.
However, once you become the rare exception and start to know the female vulva well (like for example erotica drawing artists do), you will see how the SRS vulvas do not fall into the range of natal ones, as wildly wide as it might be. There are basic anatomical mistakes, like the labia minora connecting above the clitoris instead of below it. I'm afraid this is not only caused by the limitations of the current surgical techniques, but also by the ignorance of the doctors as mentioned above. But when neither the surgeon, nor the patient, nor the partner know in detail how it should really look, everybody is happy.
Therefore, to the absolute majority of people one is going to meet after SRS, it is going to look very well... even though in fact it isn't.
I'm pre-SRS. Sometimes I tell myself that had I not seen so many, I would be happier.
