>>6 Dressing as the opposite gender in public is the first step to identifying if you'd like to go through with the surgery, in the order that many doctors do it. You crossdress in public for so many months, and then they allow you to begin hormones, and then after so many months of that, you get the surgery. I wasn't just randomly saying "LAWL U DRESS LIEK GUY N THEN U BE GOOD KK?" you know. They do it that way so that a person doesn't get a sex change on a whim or due to mental illness or anything similar.