As the title alludes, SRS has provided me with a subtle, but very real, reduction in self-consciousness.
For example, I'm sitting at my desk in a short dress. Normally, this would result in several levels of paranoia over accidentally exposing the bulk in my knickers. But now this paranoia is gone - I don't want to flash my undies at people, but if I do so by accident, I'm not bothered, since there's nothing out of the ordinary down there.
And in the women's toilets, I no longer have the fear of discovery - that irrational fear that someone will force the door or look over the partition, then point at my exposed crotch and say "A-HA! I knew it!"
Peeing without irrational fear is a great release (pun intended).
Even getting changing in the dressing rooms at a clothing store is subtly different; if someone opens the door/curtain on me by accident, I'll still be embarrassed about being undressed, but they're not going to see anything they wouldn't expect (like a bulge at my nethers).
Of course, one other change is the ability to sashay down the beach in a bikini, but that's not very subtle, is it?
