Germaine Greer had to struggle to be allowed to speak in a UK university. She says that a male-female sex-change operation doesn't produce a real woman, and many condemn her views.

I think Greer is right in a narrow sense, but perhaps wrong at a deeper level.

What is the difference between a typical man and a typical woman? It's actually many miscellaneous differences. Changing one of them in a man won't produce a woman. Changing several of them might result in a close-enough woman.

Not all men are alike, and not all women either. Perhaps the man that wants to be a transsexual starts out woman-like on some of those points.