No matter how amazing the surgery was, I would still be one unattractive woman. I think that nearly every person has (at least once) wondered "what would it be like to be different, to be someone else, or even to be the other sex". Wondering about it, thinking about the question, and examining our responses, answers and conclusions would (in one way or another) help a person to better understand who they are underneath their skin and past the physical form that a particular chromosome has given us. I also think that sort of self-question and all of the consideration a person puts into it not only helps them to better understand themselves, but can help them to realize that other people are also more than just their physical presence. Before puberty does "its thing" and activates our sexual organs for reproductive capability and in the years when those same hormones begin to decline and the body "drifts" back towards a "less sexualized" organism, people are still people and it's kind of silly to assign 100% of "who they are" based on how ~2-3% of their body mass has arranged itself. Before and after the peak of our reproductive hormones, the genital structures and secondary sexual characteristics are remarkably similar variations on a core set of organs. A fact that I still find amazing and most intriguing. I'd be the first to admit that I am a sexual being, that it is a valued and treasured part of my existence. But it isn't ALL that I am, and it isn't the only thing that goes into WHO I am.