Yep, pretty much. I know that I might have needed the time to figure it out, but man there were so many years of crippling depression, and now I’m so much happier that it would be so nice to replace those painful years with more of these happy ones. Then there is the fact that if I had started 10 years earlier I probably would be able to have a more passing one, might have had more hair and all that.
i mean, i’m not trans so i don’t really have a very good personal opinion here…
but it’s just as wrong to be implying to people flat-out “the sooner you start your transition the better,” too. not that that’s what you’re doing but i see that sort of rhetoric a lot online and it’s potentially damaging.
people who genuinely aren’t transgender but are exploring their identity do genuinely exist too and deserve credence and respect as much as anyone else. i see a lot of “egg” discourse in trans spaces and while i can understand it thanks to the perspective of a lot of trans people in my life, from the outside-looking-in it gives the wrong impression as a community and does more harm than good in the long run.
10 years is an enormous chunk of a human life. Maybe this is good advice if you’re 5 years old right now.
If I’d started my transition 10 years earlier, I’d probably need much less therapy.
Yep, pretty much. I know that I might have needed the time to figure it out, but man there were so many years of crippling depression, and now I’m so much happier that it would be so nice to replace those painful years with more of these happy ones. Then there is the fact that if I had started 10 years earlier I probably would be able to have a more passing one, might have had more hair and all that.
At least I’m here now! 🤷♀️
i mean, i’m not trans so i don’t really have a very good personal opinion here…
but it’s just as wrong to be implying to people flat-out “the sooner you start your transition the better,” too. not that that’s what you’re doing but i see that sort of rhetoric a lot online and it’s potentially damaging.
people who genuinely aren’t transgender but are exploring their identity do genuinely exist too and deserve credence and respect as much as anyone else. i see a lot of “egg” discourse in trans spaces and while i can understand it thanks to the perspective of a lot of trans people in my life, from the outside-looking-in it gives the wrong impression as a community and does more harm than good in the long run.
HRT should be an early step, it takes months for any of the changes to become noticable and if you aren’t trans you’ll know very quickly.