You wouldn't get a TV show Perhaps not a whole TV show but Christine Jorgensen was definitely a media sensation in her day and age. Media interest in trans people is not a recent thing. It goes all the way back to the freak shows with the bearded lady. What is new is cis people being expected to be fake-nice towards trans people, even while being genuinely repulsed by them. Society has decided that it's a great thing to force people to be fake-nice in the name of (fake-)tolerance and (non-)acceptance. Nevermind the fact that people aren't stupid, they know they're being pandered to and this only makes them feel more alienated and isolated because no one is telling them the truth straight up but they can sense it in the air and they can read it between the lines. Hearing what is unsaid it far worse than having it said outright.

It was very different back then. Those doctors may have been misguided but I think back then they genuinely thought they were helping people. Remember, this was at a time before secularism, when it was literally illegal to be gay and society was a lot more harsh, close-knit and judgemental than it is today. A lot of the transitioning requirements back then could not realistically be met in this day and age, there's too much entitlement, too much impatience, too much consumerism and too much of a blind trust in the medical establishment to fix any and every problem, pronto. There is no way you can realistically stealth while having a public profile and advertising your transition on all the social media for the whole world to see, even if the end result is "unclockable". Gender doctors almost want their patients to be out in the social media in order to use them as walking talking billboards to promote their plastic surgery services. It's very cynical and I have no hopes of this ever getting better, it's only going to get worse with ever more extreme surgeries and procedures. There will never be a "medical scandal" as JK Rowling claims because society wants to turn this into business as usual. If you have a shitty transition, SFW, just detrans and try again. Too much money to be made for anyone to hit the brakes.