If your surgeon knows her craft functionality is guaranteed. Libido for women is very different from your experience as a male. If you are functioning normally both physiologically and hormonally then libido will be there.
The real question is if you are a woman. There are some who will not experience a transformation of their sexuality and "miss" everything that testosterone brought to their sexuality. That happens especially when transition and SRS is the fantasy of being a woman or the desire to be like a woman goes as far as having SRS. Many late transitioners construct narratives that upon closer inspection and deeper examination reveal that they are not transsexual. The result is they may end up incompatible sexual partners for women ( because they lack a crucial ability for lack of testosterone or lack of penis) and incompatible sexual partners for men because their sexuality is male (if trying to partner with a heterosexual male) or they look to female (boobs, soft skin etc) for a homosexual male partner. So loneliness and sometimes deep depression is the result.
Lynn, decisions to transition and truly bring your body into alignment with your birth gender pre-supposes that in fact you are female to begin with. Unfortunately, simply saying you are after living as a male for 50 years or more is not enough. The real tell tales are not how you feel now or even how you felt as a child, adolescent or adult. They are how you acted and reacted throughout your life and continue to act and react. In this as in so many other areas of life actions speak louder than words. It is in your writing, in every gesture, in your approach to every subject.
