I'm reading a book called The First Man-Made Man, which is about the first two transsexuals (one FTM, one MTF). I'm not very far into it, but, there's a line in it which got me thinking.
"Wearing a dress threw her [Laura Dillon, later Michael Dillon] into anguish so excruciating that she compared it to the pain of having her teeth drilled. To be caught in anything frilly was to be humiliated."
Now, I mean, I hate dresses and I hate frills and I hate looking like a girl, but it was never ANGUISH or excruciating or anything. So.... I'm curious what you guys have to say on this.