The trick

The trick to getting through life in public as a (trans)woman is simple. Either be beautiful where you turn heads in admiration or you don't turn heads being invisible, meaning just any other woman. Anything else turns heads in curiousity or worse, and more often than not the latter.

To the former, consider your luck and work, and in some cases surgery, to pass and be nice to the latter who may pass some of the time but not most if not all the time. Their life is hard enough transitioning, adding subtle public opinion only makes it harder.