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i figured it out that i wasn't happy with my gender in middle school, but i also didn't really have the words for it, plus the stigma and family pressure was such that at the time that i decided to just repress and focus on studies/career. it didn't help that the environment in both the college i went to and the career i picked trended towards the conservative and misogynistic.
i survived mentally via escapism, playing female characters in stuff like wow helped a lot. after graduating, moving to a new city, and working for like a decade i finally started to realize how depressed i was and started transition.
by that time i had got more involved with my local anarchists and i was good friends with a really cool trans woman that i met through organizing and she really helped pull me out of denial.
i never really trusted the medical system and would never be particularly honest with doctors, especially male ones. eventually my comrade pointed out that i could just walk into a clinic and get a prescription with informed consent, so i did! it only took me like 20 years.
Lacking the words for it is so real. I'm working with 2-3 year olds and a big part of what I'm doing this year is helping equip them with the understanding of gender (including the words to describe these things) and working with staff on anti-bias and how to recognise their own.
It's refreshing to see how so many kids by the time they're hitting primary school are knowledgeable about this stuff. I know one primary school near me as 'theys' toilets along with the boys/girls toilets. I am so excited for these generations to grow up and start running things.
i was really surprised when i took the bus the other day, was just unsuspectingly sitting there, when i heard a voice behind me "wow they have such beautiful hair". i turn around and there's like two children sitting there. they see me, ask straight out "are you a boy or a girl" and i was like ... how do they know about such questions? aren't they a bit young for that? and i was just like ... it took me a moment to reflect what was happening. i just kind of never heard anyone ask these questions with such ease, without stumbling through these words with embarrassment.
I couldn't imagine a 30 year old asking that.
that's really great work to be doing! some of my friends with kids have been just so great about letting them express themselves however they like and seeing that genuinely gives me a lot of hope.