to live as the person that I feel like I am.

This whole idea is so batshit. Everyone is acting as if that's always been a right that people have... That you can impose your vision of yourself onto others and that they have to abide by it. That your own will to be what you want to be, even if it stems entirely from your imagination and is not at all grounded in our shared, observable reality, trumps everyone's senses and parsing of what they see/feel when they interact with you...

Back in my days... A whole 15 years ago... You had to put in the work to be an interesting person with skills, ideas, etc. because everyone understood that your own view of yourself may not line up with how others perceive you. The idea that in some countries, a man with a beard and lipstick wearing a wig and a dress would be able to get someone arrested for refusing to parktake in the weird fantasy that they're a woman would have been laughed at. I really don't know how the right to police how others perceive you became a thing.