[Urbane Guerrilla]

Boxes has really got it about right.

Part of the differentiation of perception of emotions in oneself contrasted with others is determined by the testosterone count. At least one transsexual is on record as saying that when he still had testes, he "could blow through emotional storms like a semi through a rainstorm," affected but not necessarily going off the pavement. As he went through meds to become she, she noticed how much easier it was to cry -- tears, essentially, were more available, nearer the surface. This, she found, was the most obvious change.

There is a difference of emotional style. Some make rather too much of that difference.