Recently I’ve been thinking I’m mtf but every trans person says they knew when they were a different since they were a child I never knew they all say how they would get confused when because they weren’t the opposite gender I never felt that. I’ve be ok with my gender until recently but the but now I’m getting gender dysphoria cause of my chest it’s strange it feels like they aren’t my chest it’s someone else’s does that mean I’m trans this is all so confusing.
There are different types of dysphoria. One is body dysphoria, where you're not satisfied, with your looks and gender dysphoria is different. It's like you're not in the right body. That there is something wrong. It definetly is very confusing and is overwhelming trying to figure it all out. Dysphoria and euphoria for example are not required at all in order to be trans. It's enough that you know you're not in the right body. Most I know also dislike their body parts and wish they would have opposite sex body parts. You don't need to have known it since early age either.
Trans myths number one: we all 'knew' when we were children. I didn't. I thought I was a boy because that's what my parents said I was. I was socialised as a male. Sure, in retrospect I can see some clues, like fantasising secretly about being a girl when I was 6. But 6 year olds pretend to be all sorts of things - playing cops and robbers doesn't mean you're gonna one day join the police force (or, for that matter, rob a bank). Trans myths number two: You have to have dysphoria to be trans. In my case I didn't feel dysphoria until the very moment I accepted that I'm a trans woman. Then it was 'oh sh**, but...what about this horrible male body I have?' The acceptance came before the dysphoria, not the other way around. And many many of us experience zero feelings of dysphoria even after we accept ourselves. Beth
Hi Ebony! I’m in kind of a similar situation, being a younger teenager and also maybe transgender, though I was assigned female at birth. It’s okay to be unsure of your gender, and it’s also okay to spend as much time as you need figuring it out. Like a different comment said, sometimes people don’t feel dysphoria until they accept they are trans. I’ve found that now that I consider myself to be male/not female, I’m a lot more affected by dysphoria. Good luck with figuring out things! -Feathers
