Should I reach out to my trans friend about my upcoming transition?

Hi friends! So, I've been more seriously considering starting to pursue MTF medical transition lately, after a good half a year of desperately trying to glue my eggshell back on (it didn't work).

I'm reeeally nervous about it, and I'd love to talk to some trans women about trans stuff and what their transition experience was like and everything. However, in my smallish midwest city, there aren't that many out trans women to connect with, and I don't really do much social media anymore to meet people that way.

I do have one trans friend who I really really like and look up to. We've had a couple classes together at my college and she DMs the D&D game that I'm in. I wouldn't say we're super close or anything, but we get along great, and there's definitely the groundwork for a stronger friendship there.

Here's the thing, though, we've never explicitly talked about her transness before. There have been a few wink-wink-nudge-nudge moments, and she keeps making reference to an upcoming, vaguely defined surgery, and from her comments in class she's clearly really well versed in gender and queer theory, but there's been nothing outright. In fact, I might not have known that she's trans at all if I was like 10% more tuned out, or if I hadn't previously spent so much time lurking in trans spaces online, too scared to post.

Would it be weird to reach out to her about my upcoming transition despite the fact that we haven't ever talked about the fact that she's trans? I definitely don't want to make her uncomfortable or cross any boundaries if there's a reason she's never mentioned it. Also, I absolutely don't want to make her feel embarrassed about possibly not "passing," if that's a sensitive subject for her, like I said, I actually think she passes really well.

What do you think? How would you feel if a good-but-not-great friend reached out to you for transition advice, despite having never talked to them about your trans identity before?