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I think it was a little more pernicious than that back in the 70s and 80s. IIRC you had to present as the opposite gender for a full year before surgery was an option.
In my mind it was "lets see if you can take all the abuse before you do something irreversible."
It's like they wanted to expose people to the absolute worst of humanity to convince them to not transition.
Source: Had a relative transition back then.