Did you have any recently? How recent? What was it?

What was your first gender euphoria? What was it like? Did you know what it was at the time?

(just looking for more conversation, sometimes it’s a bit too quiet here.)

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I knew about trans folk when I was a teenager (in the late 80s and early 90s). I knew I “should have been born a girl” even longer than that.

I still didn’t let myself accept that I’m trans until 2017, and that was only when a work mate transitioned and showed me that it really is something I can do too.

Having the information helps, but it’s only part of story. The environment we’re raised in and have to survive in is also part of the story. Sometimes we lie to ourselves because that’s the only way to get through

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What little I remember when I was younger was that there were “transexuals” but it was always portrayed like a crazy sex/fetish thing.

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Yeah, that’s how I knew about trans folk. That stigma and hate is a large part of why it took me so long to accept something I always knew to be true

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Yeah… I think that’s slowing down my progress in figuring shit out. There’s so much shit that got internalized that I haven’t been aware of til now.

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