Why Be Transgender?

"My New Vagina Won’t Make Me Happy.

Next Thursday, I will get a vagina. The procedure will last around six hours, and I will be in recovery for at least three months. Until the day I die, my body will regard the vagina as a wound; as a result, it will require regular, painful attention to maintain. This is what I want, but there is no guarantee it will make me happier. In fact, I don’t expect it to.

I was not suicidal before hormones. Now I often am."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/24/opinion/sunday/vaginoplasty-transgender-medicine.html