It sounds like you've already eliminated the biggest obstacle, which is seeing the person as something other than a medical condition. Once people get past this, they typically find that Transpeople are just like everyone else... no better or worse. The person you've found is obviously a good match for you, so move forward as you would with any other non-Trans woman, because mentally, there's no difference between us, and the physical differences after Transition are trivial.
Musak Please don't categorize an entire segment of the population because you had a bad fling with a person who Transitioned. Even if they did "trick the system" to get GRS, most of us DON'T, and most of us are perfectly normal, ordinary women (and men) who just happened to be born with the wrong anatomies. There are good and bad people everywhere, and just because someone is born Transsexual doesn't automatically make him or her a bad person.
Treat her like the woman she is. Don't dwell on the "trans" part. It's a part of her past she would rather forget, and makes very little difference now anyway.
I wish you all the best. She sounds nice.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.