I'm not quite sure how to react to this other than to say that three years ago my father, essentially, walked out on my mother (his wife of 34 years) because he believed he had this disorder (or something very similar). He decided that he wanted to live the rest of his life as a female -- which turned out to be for a little over a year or so. It was his goal include the surgery to finalize the "new" change.
On a side-note, I do not believe he was diagnosed with this.