Absolutely.
Pre-hormones and pre-transition, I somehow had this view that I was going to "become" a woman. Like it was something that I had to earn, some magical transformation that would happen. And as a result I spent a lot of transition worrying that I somehow wasn't "female enough," that I somehow didn't deserve to be gendered female or treated like a woman or any of those things, because it was this thing that I felt like I hadn't earned yet.
2.5 years of hormones and 14 months of full-time later, and I've realized that being female wasn't something that I had to become, or had to earn, I already was one. What I used to interpret as my brain telling me that I wanted to be female, or wished I was female, that was really my brain telling me that I was female already, and I needed my body and social role to match that identity. I just lacked the self-actualization to say that I was a girl, because of society's views on oppositional sexism where male and female are complete opposites, and you can't be one unless this and this and this, and therefore that transition actually is a transition where you switch from being male to being female, where you earned your femininity because of this and this and this. I shed this view and realized that I never was male in the first place, "male" was just a label that was slapped on me by other people.
Basically, I went into transition believing everything that society says about what it means to "transition" from male to female. Now I'm realizing that the entire concept of gender as society knows it, as a binary of opposites, as one side over here and another side over here and never the twain shall meet, if you want to be male or female you have to act this way, and have these interests, and have these childhood experiences, and these life aspirations, is complete bull. Those that I deemed as ideally feminine, who I felt like had "earned" their femininity in my eyes, had done NOTHING different than me, it's just that they were lucky genetically. When you really get into it, gender is just an arbitrary set of societal expectations based on one's appearance, taking a few minute perceived differences and making overblown assumptions about your personality, interests, life goals, everything, just based on that appearance. ANYONE can be either completely male or female by society's definition simply by existing in a certain body, regardless of their actual personality or interests or identity or history. That was when I realized that there was nothing to earn. I simply was.
My life experience confirms this. Pre-transition, I had NO support from anyone. Even my own mother, who wanted desperately to at least give me lip service in support, says that she had trouble seeing me as a woman, and wasn't sure that I knew what I was doing. Magically, when my body finally started matching, and I started being gendered female by strangers a majority of the time, despite me still being the exact same person inside and doing the exact same things, all of a sudden people magically switched their perspective from "you'll never be a woman" to "what? How can you possibly think you're not a woman?"
Like I said, gender is freaking arbitrary.
