@dandelion I guess one misconception I had before transition was that I thought you needed to know you wanted to be a different gender early on as a child. The thing is when I was a child I never even put any thought to what I wanted to be or what I looked like. When people told me I was a boy I believed them because what do I know. I might as well have been a pair of floating eyeballs because I had no sense of my body. Only when puberty hit did it occur to me that I would rather be female because of the changes to my body and sexuality.
The misconception I mentioned was something I used as an argument why I could not be trans, ignoring that there were still signs when I was a child, just not obvious ones. I think I used it as a coping mechanism since transition seemed so far out of reach in my early adulthood.
@dandelion I guess one misconception I had before transition was that I thought you needed to know you wanted to be a different gender early on as a child. The thing is when I was a child I never even put any thought to what I wanted to be or what I looked like. When people told me I was a boy I believed them because what do I know. I might as well have been a pair of floating eyeballs because I had no sense of my body. Only when puberty hit did it occur to me that I would rather be female because of the changes to my body and sexuality.
The misconception I mentioned was something I used as an argument why I could not be trans, ignoring that there were still signs when I was a child, just not obvious ones. I think I used it as a coping mechanism since transition seemed so far out of reach in my early adulthood.