The trans community were not comfortable with my honest answer about pronouns at the time, which was that I preferred everyone to use "she/her" and my birth name until I began passing.
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Pronouns have never been directly relevant to my gender dysphoria. I do not enjoy being asked about them, nor do I wish for asking about them to be normalized. I changed the pronouns I used a year earlier than I wanted due to pressure from the trans community.https://twitter.com/stonewalluk/status/1184403470125805569 …
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For the sake of being accepted and not making waves during my early transition (a vulnerable and frankly terrifying time), I started using a male name and male pronouns before I was passing, which greatly exacerbated my gender dysphoria.
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I don't blame the trans community for this, by the by. An out trans man using she/her fuels transphobes' bigotry. Making passing central to transition fuels their bigotry. But, the fact remains: My comfort was secondary to concerns about how things would seem to transphobes.
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