>However, for a long time I wasn’t interested in these questions. [...] When I finally did start thinking about being a woman, the aspect that struck me was: W

>However, for a long time I wasn’t interested in these questions. [...] When I finally did start thinking about being a woman, the aspect that struck me was: Why had I not felt any need to think about it before? And how can we get to a place where nobody else needs to think about it either? Glaring unacknowledged question: What did the people who came before her do to lay a groundwork where those questions didn't have to be at the front of her mind? And what changed?