Some very good observations have been made on this subject, what interests me is the dynamic interactions of challanges that may occur during the transition process, and how there are a finite number of similar life experiences with approximate stressors. Additionally how these sequenced changes may correlate to commonalities in cognitions of transgendered individuals.
In that, prior to transition, I had no personal experience of prejudice, or of how an individual who may exist in a social setting such as a high street without proactivley monitoring ones environment, to a situation of being highly vigilant, and self monitoring on an intensive basis. With a subsequent cognitive outcome of such behavioural modification, without adequate support, resulting in polarised and fixed feelings of paranoia, and acute vulnerability. Further more, londitudinal coping strategies may include the adoption of rule goverened behaviour, whether they be rational or maladaptive, they serve as defences, and ways to get through each day, or minute by minute.
