It may not be a question that one person can answer for another. For me the answer is without doubt yes.
It's all gone now. Not just the need or ache to be who I really am and have the world see me as such, but all of the garbage that came with it. The discomfort that I always felt trying to be something I am not in order to fit in. The fear that everyone would find out my terrible secret. The shame I felt for being the way that I am. The almost anger at women for getting to live a life that I never could.
I was just thinking about it recently, what has changed? At this point in my transition all of the highs of it are long over but for GRS. I have lived full time as a woman for 3 years, and unquestioned as a woman for over 2 years. Coming to this site keeps a lot of things fresh somewhat but it fades quickly into the humdrum of life and I don't think of it at all. So what has changed? I know the physical, mental and social changes, but how does all of that effect my internal dialogue, the me that no one can see and can't, that I have found, be quantified or compared to? What is better than my life before now that the highs are gone? The torment is missing. The fear, discomfort, shame, anger, need and ache are gone like they never existed at all.
Transition was not easy for me, almost all of the things we all fear might happen to us in transition happened. It hurt beyond what I could have imagined was possible. Yet I would do it again and again and again to get here, to live my life the way I do now and count myself lucky that I had the opportunity to do so.
Does that help?