𝓝𝓪𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓮 𝓦𝔂𝓷𝓷  💎

inhabiting a male body, but wanting to be a woman. And now for the first time expressing that with my clothing, etc.

I feel like I shouldn't say "wanting to be a woman" or that's not what I'm supposed to feel, but it is basically what I feel.

That, and not experiencing any dysphoria until adolescence, and putting it on the back burner most of my adulthood makes me think

that I couldn't really be trans. But in fact there are lots of trans people who don't fit the classic story of "wrong body since birth"

THREAD TANGENT: people often say wrt GQ, "this is just fashion, fashion is not a gender."

But if fashion is how you express your gendered psychological experience, then it isn't *just* fashion, is it?

THREAD RESUMED: what if my feeling of being "a man who wants to be a woman" went away if I transitioned?

What if I did HRT and tried to appear more female and used only female pronouns. Would I feel like a *real* woman then? I don't know!