Coming out as trans in 1977

Here's a scene from "Soap", s01e02, aired 1977-09-20, in which a cis writer is imagining a trans character coming out to her mother. How would a trans writer have written it? You might also be interested in a song I wrote and animated, about being non-binary:    • The nonbinary song   — Transcript: MARY: By a sex change operation, do you mean a sex change operation? JODIE: Mmhmm. I spoke to Dr Fletcher today, and... MARY: I'm not thinking about what I'm going to tell people, Jodie. I couldn't care less. The thing is, I just got used to you being a h... JODIE: Homosexual. MARY: And, yeah, I always thought that you'd outgrow it... that it was just a phase. And now, when I'm finally used to you being a... JODIE: Homosexual. MARY: ...you're going to get a sex change operation, and be a girl? Jodie, for God's sakes, what am I going to tell people? Oh my God, I think I'm having a cerebral haemorrhage. I can feel it. JODIE: Mother... MARY: I mean, you're casually going out and doing this thing like it was nothing! It... it's not like getting a haircut, Jodie. A major artery just went. Fine. In ten minutes I'll be dead. I won't have to worry. JODIE: Mother... Mom... listen to me. Mother. Mom? I should be a woman. I've always felt like a woman. Mom, remember when I was four years old and it was Christmas? And you gave Danny and me those little plastic shaving kits? Remember? Remember how Danny took that little plastic razor and started to shave his face? I shaved my legs, Mom. Mom, it was apparent then! CHESTER (off): Mary! Mary! Where are you? Wait till you hear the news I got! Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realise you had company... God damn.