Definitely, yes. I've known about "the cure" since the 1960's, when I first heard a comment about Christine Jurgenson, by Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show. I was at first elated to know that one could actually change their sex to match their inner gender, but then horrible frustration set in, because I didn't know how to go about doing it myself, and had nowhere to go to find out, and no one to confide in. I was also locked into a job where any mention of changing sex, would have been disastrous I lived for the next forty years, knowing that it was possible for some, but not for me. The information that at first made me happy, eventually made me more depressed. And that depression became even more acute, when I finally got internet access, and discovered a whole world of information, and peer encouragement, that I could have put to use thirty years earlier, when transitioning would have truly made a positive difference in my life. Now at 60 years old, with a bald head, a gray beard, and some health issues related to my once obese state (brought on solely by my gender frustration), I'm too old to go on hormones, and not a good candidate for surgery. It's like I've always been outside, looking at the party through the window all of these years, but I can never get an invitation.
