Quote Originally Posted by aalynn88 View Post
... Maybe, just maybe, I suffer from the same medical condition. Maybe, just maybe, I'm so uninformed about all this that although I now see I worded my question wrong, I came here looking for some answers and maybe, just maybe, I'm afraid of the negative side-effects of hormone therapy and wonder what good it does. ...

Anyway, from what I understand after reading these post, aside from Im an idiot and make people sick, is that I need the hormones because you lose male libido anyway with surgery so you need some female libidiousness to replace it. Correct? ...
The wording of your original post is actually quite clear. "I dress up because it's a turn-on for me" is very specific. So is the gender language - "guys like me", "male libido", "man in a woman's body", etc.

You are not a good candidate for SRS because (as an evident fetishist) the chances for post-surgical regret would be assessed as high. You are not a good candidate because, changes to medical ethics notwithstanding, the guideline is still "first, do no harm" - and SRS is viewed as a mutiliation for any but a transsexual (for whom it is a correction). You are not a good candidate because you don't understand the consequences and therefore can't give informed consent.

SRS takes medical procedures considerably past cosmetic surgery. Because of that, the physician's personal and professional ethics have as big a role as do the prospective patient's wishes. That is why they don't let "guys like you" do whatever they want. Medicine (at its best, at least) is based on evidence and outcome-based practices and standards. At this point, a man acquiring a female habitus doesn't quality.

In other words, you are not a good candidate.