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Transmascs: did you identify as a cis LGBQ+ identity before you realized you were transmasc?
Yes, and I am still LGBQ+ even aside from being trans
Yes, but I am not LGBQ+ aside from being transgender
No, but I am still LGBQ+ even aside from being trans
No, and I am not LGBQ+ aside from being transgender
Unsure / I can’t remember
Other answer / it’s complicated
See results / not transmasc
Me as a child, noticing most of my favorite characters were men, and I wanted to play men in video games: Am I…
My impending trans realization: He’s almost got it!
Me: SEXIST?!?
My impending trans realization: Are you fucking kidding me
before I transitioned (at around age 15ish?) I had a nagging feeling in the back of my head that never really went away, that I was doing something, wrong. Any time I talked to a girl i felt a weird inherent kinship with them I didn't with guys? and always wanted to be around them. Whenever I was with just guys I didn't feel anything special, just kinda, normal. This feeling of wrongness slowly faded as I entered adolescence never really leaving me. I learned what a trans person was and said "not for me", but whenever i did hear a passing mention of transness I would grapple onto it, wanting to hear every detail I could. The kinship i felt towards girls became one i felt towards queer people, which was annoying because I wasn't queer, I felt like I was intruding in a space I didn't belong in but desperately wanted to. At the start of 2020(other than you know) I saw a tweet written by a trans woman who had come out and all of a sudden the wrongness i had suppressed from my early childhood explodes out of me in a brief jealous rage (thankfully i didn't send her any hate comments). After that things slowly snowballed until fall when i suddenly realized I was trans after accepting I was bi. The wrongness that had smoldered in the back of my mind my entire short started to go away after I accepted myself, came out to friends, and finally started hormone replacement therapy.
I have no idea why I wrote this timeline of my transness other than to get it out of my fucking head. I originally wanted to focus on the wrongness but as I wrote I realized it stopped being a forefront emotion basically after the end of grade school. The sort of nawing discomfort you get when you don't come out came kind of slowly weirdly.
Concept: Masked superhero who, in order to protect their secret identity, pretends to be the opposite sex. Through doing this and having everyone refer to their superhero counterpart with those pronouns and labels they realize they are, in fact, trans.
Pass the happy! 🌻🌈 When you receive this, list 5 things that make you happy and send this to the last ten people in the notifications.
Let's see, uh...
1) My boyfriend, duh. He's the love of my life and I don't care who knows it.
2) My cats. Even the ones who've passed still hold a special place in my heart.
3) My close friends. So that includes my boyfriend again, but also a few others. They love me for me, no matter how weird or wacky I can get. Also still stuck around when I was all depressed and crap.
4) Me, I guess? Like, when it comes down to it, being myself makes me really happy.
5) Desserts! I'm trying to cut down on sweets, but they're so good... like chocolate chip cookies that are just the right kind of crunchy and soft and the chocolate is all melty and they're so warm and I'm gonna make myself drool, lol
Honorary mentions for the ace and mental health (specifically adhd and autism) communities. Cause sometimes trans folks can be gatekeep-y and it sucks. And parts of the general lgbt community.
But I'm more solid in who I am when diving into the comforts of looking at the ace tags or adhd tags or autism tags. Like, in a weird way, learning about autism in myself is helping me come to grips with being nonbinary and visa versa.
So, thank you, lovely people. Keep being you <3
Curious. How many others out there figured out they were trans after going to college? Like, age 20 and older. In hindsight it makes sense, but the overall realization didn’t hit you in the forefront until then. Basically, I’m just hoping I’m not alone in realizing until after puberty is done and gone.
Dude I'm so ready to start passing as a man, like that's all I want. And then it hit me. People are going to perceive me as a Cis, white man, and I was kinda like eww
