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Iirc Norah Vincent, a lesbian who spent some time dressing, looking, and acting as a man to see what it was like "on the other side" was really beaten down by the experience (probably an understatement, really). Wrote a book about it too, Self Made Man.
What's interesting to me is that book is 16 years old now so I'd love to see another woman do the same thing today. I'd imagine all the troubles Vincent ran into would be a lot more intense today.
In fairness, I don't think all of it was just about being a man. Part of it was that she had basically given herself an identity crisis, not too unlike gender dysphoria (without actually being dysphoria). The shock to your morale from a "loss of self" can be very brutal if you're not prepared for it, and there's no way that she was.