I went to support meetings and places that cater specifically for transgendered individuals. In those places everyone compliments each other, everyone says how passable and gorgeous you are. Probably they do it just to encourage you, I don't think they mean it as fake flattery. So, on the one hand I got all these people (therapists, doctor who performed my ffs, other transgendered women) telling me how passable I am and how smooth my transition will be. Then, I go out in the real world and I have to worry about my safety even if I go to a 7/11. I might find a gangster who reads me and kills me.
Life is freaking hard if you are an unpassable transsexual. If you deny that, you live in delusion.