When did you first start feeling gender dysphoria? (self.trans)

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Most medical literature on trans people assumes that the vast majority of trans people started getting gender dysphoria since being small children. I suspect that a good portion of us got it later than that.

What was your experience with this?

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[-] arizz 4 points 8 months ago

Can relate, I never really hated the way I looked, but I definitely did not like the way I looked. Just always felt like I was looking at a thing in the mirror, not really myself.

Those days are more or less over for me, hope you feel the same way.

[-] miss_brainfarts 2 points 8 months ago

There's still that guy in the mirror, but every now and then I manage to get a glimpse of how I could look in the future.

Though it's hard for me to look past the beardshadow, that one's really screwing with me

[-] arizz 2 points 8 months ago

I was like that up until recently too. The sudden flashes of a girl I've never seen in the mirror then suddenly seeing my "guy self" again, that kinda stuff. Although I have never really had a beard, my mustache hair was super dark for a long time but has thinned with hrt. Its not super visible now, but still bugs the sugar honey ice tea out of me!

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