(1) I have actually wondered about this, what a very supportive trans environment might look like, and how we would conceive of dysphoria in that kind of world. One thing that intrigues me is that while we hear reports of trans people throughout history and pre-history, i've only ever heard of one that resonated with me with hints of dysphoria. Hardly scientific, i know! It does make me wonder how gender, and thus transgender'ness, manifests in our particular society, and how that flavors the ways we feel dysphoria.

(2) For what its worth, i live in a fairly progressive community -- about a few million strong so we have critical mass for being able to live in a bubble where, say, out genderqueer people become mayors, gynos come to bat for pregnant men, and city officials seriously discuss how proposed laws effect non-op folks.

And i do notice more people transitioning here without dysphoria.

Ex. I have a good high school buddy who just knew she was a woman, and with a desire to live a life of integrity she transitioned. No sob story. Just a better life.

I have several college friends who similarly didn't have dysphoria in any stressful sense. While they weren't strictly speaking male or female, they were looking for a best fit. Some of them took hormones, some of them had surgeries. Only one of them had any regrets -- and in her case she was happy with the physical changes, just not the social ones.

I've also known a number of folks who did not have stressful bodily dysphoria, and were able to come out to enough of their community to get a critical mass of respect for the gender they were that their life was improved for it. I'd say in some of those cases it was relieving a social distress, albeit not a severe.

I have seen several situations where people transition from a place of good to even better, rather than a place from misery to happiness as is part of the classic narrative we throw out there.

If this is any indicator of things to come as mainstream society becomes less transphobic, then perhaps much less of us would experience deep angst over our gender being mis-assigned at birth than we currently are used to.