Quote from: Sephirah on December 26, 2024, 05:44:11 PMI've spoken to a lot of people who've decided to physically transition later in life. And in all these conversations, I think there was something in them that's been there for decades.
Certainly true for me. I remember thinking back when I was 6 or 7 that the whole "boys are this, girls are that" thing was idiotic, and I had no desire to be what boys were supposed to be. I was forced to do some of it, but I hated it. Locker rooms felt like hell. Summer camp (boys only) might have been fun, if there hadn't been all those boyish boys and the pressure to be properly boyish.
On the other hand, the idea of being turned into a girl terrified me. I could only imagine that I would be cast out of the human race and treated as some sort of monster or pariah and that dying would be my only escape. It wasn't the
being a girl that was horrible, it was how society would treat me. It wasn't until I started reading blogs by trans women that I could imagine transitioning myself. Once I saw that it was possible to transition and survive, I kind of knew I was going to. Transitioning was like being freed from some dank dark dungeon cell.
