Trust me you aren't chicken if your cross dressing in public, that takes alot more guts than you would think 😛
It's totally up to you how far you go, but get educated on the different processes, for example I thought GRS was a cake walk, it's not and has some life long implications of course. If you want to stop at being a cross dressing male or identifying as female and having no treatment thats fine, if you want to go half way, have the hormones but not GRS that is fine, if you want to go the full way that is fine, but always make sure you are comfortable with it 🙂