I can remember being in preschool and playing with girls more often and I was told by another boy I wasn't supposed to play with girls. And so 40 some years of programming began. I often wonder where I'd be if I grew up today. Well I don't I know I'd  be trans lol. Gender therapist is the first step. It's tricky. Children and adolescents are finicky but thats not to say they aren't trans. I'd say for them not to rush but I'm here at 44 wishing I'd transitioned years ago.

Quote from: MeTony on March 04, 2018, 09:13:12 AM

It never goes away. It's like an itch that just grows and grows. Until you can't keep it in anymore and it just explodes.

It can be supressed but it keeps coming back. I supressed it for 30 years. I ended up suicidal and depressed. I was suicidal as a teenager too. I felt like a freak. Why can't I be normal? Why me?

Seconding this, so many trans people have to suppress it throughout the years. Through their childhood. Through their teens. Through their 20's, 30's, 40's and so on. This doesn't make them any less trans, being trans never goes away.

People think that being transgender is a "choice" sometimes, that they decide to and choose to transition, they do end up making the big decision to transition, but this isn't a big "choice" to them, it's being transgender and happy or being transgender with yourself in a completely repressed state for years and years to come, it's completely unhealthy and it often leads to a lack of motivation, energy, drive, feeling and inevitably can lead to depression or even suicidal ideations.

If he knows he's transgender now, it's not going to go away, you can't expect it to be a "phase".

Yeah I got blind sided by it in January. Then I saw the overarching meta pattern and I was like oh it all makes sense now. So much time wasted trying to become something foreign to my nature.