𝓝𝓪𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓮 𝓦𝔂𝓷𝓷  💎

I feel like I'm from an entirely different era of trans history as people even just five years younger than me. In grade school, college, post-grad not once was anyone asked for their pronouns. The word "transgender" was not mentioned in my health education.

For about five years before my transition I called myself "a transvestite," a word that's now completely obsolete. In fact I didn't feel comfortable calling myself a woman until a few months into medical transition, when people were already defaulting to "she/her" for me.

Whereas I've met 20-year-olds in full-on boy mode who are like "hi, I'm a trans woman, she/her pronouns!"

I think there's a gap in understanding as a result. The younger generation sometimes gets frustrated with me because they don't understand my upbringing or how I do things. And in turn I sometimes have difficulty understanding them.

It's pretty strange, really, since the age difference is like, not much wider than senior-freshman. But it's a world of difference. Things are definitely better now. And mind-blowing to think this happened in less than a decade.