"it is not unheard of for patients to go from raising the issue of gender identity, to transition, to surgery in a matter of months"

"The point I was striving for was that being told from birth that your
kind is inferior to the dominant social classification is very different
to, as an adult, entering a community and encountering for the first
time people who feel you are inferior to them."

"I do feel that some psychological work beforehand with an intelligent and ideologically neutral therapist is only prudent."

"If we stop treating gender-nonconforming children as a problem to be
fixed, or remarkable in any way, wouldn't a lot of the angst and
emotional damage that trans people often suffer go away?"

Haha, in fairness, the last few names I have chosen myself have tended to be random keyboard smashes so it isn't like this one is all that unusual for me.

I don't think so - I don't think trans people tend to have an unusual gender presentation which needs to be accepted and the nonacceptance of which leads them to be trans. As to who they love, that's not really relevant.
There might be an argument that removal entirely of social gender stuff might (and emphasis on that…

"I can't help feeling that a treatment which could help a person feel at
home in the body they occupy would be preferable to extensive and risky
surgery. Not to mention that we simply don't know the safety of long
term opposite-sex HRT on a human body."

Thank you for the hooray, although I do wish I was better at thinking up profile names…

This is also my 1st comment (although in my case it is ever) - but I wanted to ask: