Good to see your post. I started E. grey-market, in 1970. Been on it under doc's care since 1974. Downstairs work down a few years after that. We're the same age. I don't have kids. It seems just like it was yesterday and yet so long ago. There are so few of us from those days because there were so few of us back then, even though our "ships" were sailing to opposite shore. Nevertheless it was great to see others passing through the night.
When I was young, I did not pay much attention to people transitioning in the other direction. I grew older and though I know there were many things that were different between F2M and M2F, I came to realize that there is something similarI share with transmen. When I started transition, apart from therapists, it was a transman who took me under his wing and got me into 3D support group. he was the moderator and did a darn good job. Gwin! You still out there?
I think of him sometimes. It was through him I saw the commonality, despite the different destinations.