I don't think people want to live open and honestly and TS represent everything they are too afraid to do for themselves. I have never met another person that was so honest and open about everything as a TS. People live in rigid societies produced boxes and fear keeps them in there. I'm sure there are a few that really don't have any issues, could care less, but for the most part, most people are more concerned with how they look, and what people think of them.
You will never get the level of honesty that TS give, out of non TS folk. I also think its an IQ level thing and the ability to think and reason beyond what you know. There is nobody that scans every cell of their brain like a TS before transition. Every dark corner is researched and filleted out under a microscope for examination before caving into a faith filled leap into the unknown. Not many people examine themselves nor need to. I know my mind races so hard on some days that I am actually tired. People cannot appreciate how much effort I have put into the day. I may not have walked 10 ft but I worked ten times harder than people around me just in keeping my issue at bay not to mention all my daily routine of work, kids, house.
I'm beginning to understand why its possible to find happiness after transition. 99% of my resourses are used in transitional thoughts. If I could free that energy and resourses up for other things.....I cannot imagine what I could accomplish in life.
Anyhow...most people I know seem very immature, young, and totally incapable of every hoping to understand what a real TS is and what they go through. As long as there are she-males, cross dressers and ->-bleeped-<-s and TS under that same transgender umbrella, TS will be confused in that same group and treated as gay men that just want sex or however society wants to view them.
I don't have anything against the others under that umbrella...I'm just not one of them and have no idea why I'm there.