I never realised what misgendering feels like until discovering how it feels to be gendered correctly. Reaching the point where strangers sometimes perceive me as female even without hormones ... it's like that first day of feeling healthy after a long illness, or that moment that the sun breaks through the clouds on a dark day. But then they "realise" I'm a man, correct their mistake, and the world goes grey again. I often wish I'd never found out what I was missing.