Arduinna

This reminds me a lot of a similar episode (also about the cisgender main character's journey, not the trans person) on WKRP. Similar cringey bits, but also an amazement that they did that in the late '70s and they tried--and by the knowledge and rules of the day, they did a pretty decent job. I remember as a person in my late teens, in fact, being astounded that that was a thing people could do, I knew about some famous people who'd transitioned, but it was always discussed in this almost sniggering way. There's a ton of jokes about it built in to the episode, because ha ha it's so funny ::dies of cringing:: but I still had to at least give them props for doing it at a time when things were really changing and most "average" Americans were freaking the fuck out.