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There’s so much stuff that would feel weird and stereotype-y to see someone else do and think, “they must be trans!” but when I think back on myself doing them, my only thought is, “oh, so that’s what that was about.”

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[–] DiscoPosting@hexbear.net 49 points 2 years ago (1 children)

de-conceptualization

SORTIR DU PLACARD

Bonuses from the thought:

-1 Authority: Exposed

-1 Composure: Volatile

+1 Pain Threshold: Been through worse

+1 Psyche: All pieces in place

You once suggested going "as a girl" for Halloween and didn't understand why your father was so angry at the idea. Once you hit puberty, you began stuffing your shirt in secret to see what you would look like if you had breasts. You've penned an inordinate amount of terrible lesbian fanfiction, and always wondered why you never felt excluded when your fellow authors complained about men invading their women-only space. Your life could have been a lot easier if you'd realized this earlier — but it would have been far worse to never realize at all.

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[–] kristina@hexbear.net 46 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

i remember one time little kid me asked my teacher if she could hook me up with some estrogen after she explained what it did to the body in sex ed. she laughed like it was a joke but i was dead serious

also a wild thing that happened to me is having a save for a game with my CURRENT NAME on it from like 2001 that i found recently. huge brainfuck because i didnt know i was trans at the time and i def didnt have a name decided on

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago (3 children)

i def didnt have a name decided on

something tells me you definitely did lmao

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[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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My inspiration for this post: finding a playlist from when I was 14 that’s made up exclusively of tATu and Indigo Girls songs. All my friends were metalhead gamer bros and so was I, but for some reason I was baffled that they didn’t enjoy this playlist.

[–] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago (1 children)

All my friends in highschool were girls, I was obsessed with body swap movies and retain extensive knowledge of cross gender body swap movies, I loved Ranma 1/2 and dunked cold water on my head (😬), I loved doing drag and had a normal girl name as my drag name that is now my legal name, I never could look at myself in mirrors or on video nevermind having to listen to myself in recordings, I hated shopping for dude clothes, I was really passionate about trans rights and knew trans women pathways for medicine cause I researched it a lot, etc.

I try to be nice to myself about missing all these until way after being an adult, I think I needed the stability and calmness much later to actually be able to crack my egg. Considering the schools I went to, places I lived, how my dad was, I don't know if I would have survived before I had way more emotional maturity and resilience (and stability).

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

dunked cold water on my head (😬)

This is a trans thing? Could you please explain?

[–] Cromalin@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

the main character of ranma 1/2 was born a boy but turns into a girl (ranmao)whenever splashed with cold water, and turns back with warm water

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[–] NailBunny@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lying about being a girl on the internet when I was like 12. Well, it's confusing to look back on those days as a lie, but I certainly felt like I was lying at the time. I don't even think I had a real justification for it at the time beyond just liking how it felt lol

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[–] alexandra_kollontai@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago

I heard somebody call out a name and I thought "wow, Alexandra, that's a pretty name, if I ever get the chance to name a girl I should call her that." And then I did get the chance!

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago

Egg thread!

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago

the first time I blacked out as a teenager (just after high school), I kissed a boy because he was talking about wanting to kill himself and I wanted him to feel better. one of my friends tried to interrogate me the day after about whether or not I was gay and I was like "no, I'm definitely straight". I was right but not in the way he understood it lmao

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I've recently come to realize that I'm bi. I should have realized it a few years ago when I was watching a sexy circus act that a local performer was doing. I asked my partner who it was, and they said "his name is [name]." My internal reaction was "huh....nice." I didn't really think about it much more until a few months ago when I realized I was getting a little flirty with a male friend.

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[–] morte@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago

The fact that i have a lot of core memories of masking feminine behavior should have been an indicator

[–] LostDeer 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Seeing myself in mirrors as a tween and teen and thinking "who is that" while getting increasingly disgusted in how I looked as I got older. I remember distinctly thinking that looked like boys in class and they didn't look disgusting or like they hated their bodies and couldn't figure it out.

[–] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago

For one reason or another, my mom insisted on shaving my head when I was 12 or 13. When I see pictures or video footage of myself from that summer, I don't recognize myself at all and have never been able to reconcile that I'm looking at my own physical form without feeling a wave of revulsion. I suppose that a cis person would look at something like that and think "holy shit, I was a cringey teenager," but for me, it's a dysphoria trigger.

...it doesn't help that it looked like there were dents in my head. If I ever meet my father, the first thing I'm going to do is start poking him in the top of the head while yelling, "HOW DO YOU LIKE IT? HOW DO YOU LIKE IT? HUH? HUH?"

[–] Cromalin@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

read a thing about how you'd turn into a girl magically if you kissed your elbow and spending hours and hours trying to manage it when i was like 7

read a bunch of webcomics (el goonish shive and rain and the like) and fanfiction about ranmao getting stuck as a girl and getting really fixated on any gender bender or rule 63 stuff i could find

getting really grumpy about my singing voice dropping when i was like 14 and not knowing why so blaming it on the songs i liked being in a weird range that made belting a pain

[–] Tastysnack@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

getting really grumpy about my singing voice dropping when i was like 14 and not knowing why so blaming it on the songs i liked being in a weird range that made belting a pain

Oof real

[–] frankfurt_schoolgirl@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

read a thing about how you'd turn into a girl magically if you kissed your elbow and spending hours and hours trying to manage it when i was like 7

was it some weird kids book? I think I remember that one too

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[–] Clever_Clover@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

getting really fixated on any gender gender or rule 63 stuff i could find

real

[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Had a serious debate with a male friend that being a girl would be so much better than a guy

Felt really happy when a friend said that I had the personality of a "cute girl"

During my first (psychedelic) trip when things started going dark, I

CW: genital talkhad an intense desire to chop my dick off


, wanted to bear a child, and wished my arms were thin and slender which started my questioning

It still took me a few years after all these things and a lot of introspection while high to figure it out 💀

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Playing as a girl in vidya, I had the standard excuses soypoint-1butt soypoint-2, but they rang really hollow because it's was just something I was saying, I never actually sexualised the characters.

Really solidified for me when I played games that didnt have a 3rd person mode, so there was literally no difference, but it just felt right, ya know.

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[–] frankfurt_schoolgirl@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Idk if it's egg exactly, but my best friend as a kid later turned out to be a trans man. I would go over to his house all the time, and we would do everything from painting our nails and watching early 2000s Disney to wearing camo and fighting the neighbor boys with sticks. One time his dad referred to me as his little boyfriend or something, which made us both super uncomfortable. I think his mom thought I was gay tho.

I haven't really been in touch with him since we were at the 2020 protests together, but I found out through a mutual friend that he transitioned at about the same time I did. I tried to reach out, but he never got back to me, and honestly I didn't know how to do it.

Also, when I was in highschool I tried dating girls or a bit, and it was terrible, but my most successful relationship was with a girl who immediately came out as a lesbian when we went to college. Obviously straight couples can have variety too, but they way we were together seemed very not straight in retrospect.

[–] ScrewdriverFactoryFactoryProvider@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think the tendency of queer people to find each other, even before knowing that’s what they were doing, is pretty common. I hope you end up reconnecting with your friend some day!

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

It is extremely common yeah.

[–] Anxious_Anarchist@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

I can second this as common, almost all of my friends from high school were queer even though a lot of us only came out after graduating.

[–] SassyGumsquatch@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years ago

The other night I was chatting with a friend of mine about how I used to have a lego figure who I played with a lot; kind of a main character in my adventures. As I was talking about some of the adventures I took this lego dude on, I remembered that they would transform from a man to a woman all the time as a sort of superpower.

[–] nemmybun@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wrote out a whole comment and it made sad thinking about what I wrote and I don't really want to risk making others sad so I decided to scrap it. Instead I'll just say that honestly there's a lot of those types of moments in my life and looking back it's kind of embarrassing how long it took me to figure out I was trans.

[–] Tastysnack@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

I did the same thing, after I'd listed enough I was like "how did I not realise" and just deleted the comment.

[–] Alch_Fox@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My earliest moment was pretending I was pregnant all the time as a young child. From there, the next earliest would be my desire for girl toys like Polly Pockets and the like. Don't know why it took me until I was in my 30s to fully figure things out. Even my wife had me figured out 10 years before I did.

[–] grey_wolf_whenever@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How did that work out for you, if you dont mind me asking. Im just intrigued by the idea of discovery in your 30's, and how your wife took it (assuming she is straight or at least straight ish)

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[–] done@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Being a little kid and pretending to be pregnant and just assuming that was what would end up happening, then being sad when i found that wasnt what would happen. Still took me til my twenties to have any realizations :(

[–] ScrewdriverFactoryFactoryProvider@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’ve noticed my son doing this. He’s played a lot with his gender already and has settled on being a boy, but there’s still things that make me think that puberty’s gonna be a rude awakening for him. Either way, he’s gotta figure it out for himself.

[–] done@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I obviously cant speak to your kids future experiences, but that kind of mirrors my experience. Once i got over "oh ok im a boy apparently?" in my childhood, once puberty came i got really depressed and deeply not okay. What i needed growing up was exposure to and normalization of trans identities (and for people to not assume i was a boy, but thats a big ask in this society). Even just a book with the super cis-accessible 'born in the wrong body' narrative. But my home life was a bit messy, so little support there, and school was, well, public school (read: rife with homophobia), so any feelings i had got pushed down and funneled into self hatred and shame.

I hope your kiddo has an easier time figuring things out, but even just having parents who are aware of trans identities and whatnot is a huge win in my book :)

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[–] ThePokeYen@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

Met a trans person for the first time at like 14 (trans guy) and remember thinking why does this dude want to be a guy, and a feeling like does he know what hes giving up? Also felt a strange attraction for him that I didn't understand at the time that wasn't really sexual. Anyway it took me another 2 years to figure out I was trans (thanks brain)

[–] Anxious_Anarchist@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

Every time I played pretend as a child I was some form of shapeshifter or genderless robot. Additionally, every friend I had were girls and almost every interest I had was girly until people started to bully me about it.

[–] Huldra@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

These are all mostly just coincidences and didn't objectively mean much, but its funny in retrospect that I had like at least 3-4 times way before I was even thinking of my gender and sexuality where people assumed I was a girl, and I wasn't even like skinny androgynous I've always been at minimum a chubby fuck.

[–] ScrewdriverFactoryFactoryProvider@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Most of these are so blatant that it’s giving me imposter syndrome. Is there anyone else who realized they were trans by obsessively cataloguing trivial clues in hopes that one of them would magically give them the permission to consider that they might be trans? I realized after a certain point that the journaling was backed by an intense desire for it to be true and was like, “yeah, that sounds egg-y”

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[–] Sandinband@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Kid me being a huge tomboy

Pre teen me wearing layers and layers of tight shirts under a loose shirt so my boobs wouldn't show

Teen me saying I'd like to wear a binder but I'm not trans because I don't care about having a vagina

Current non binary me being in the closet and having really bad gender feelings deeper-sadness

[–] Sandinband@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

Oh also an out transwoman who was a few years older than me in college taking a sudden liking to me (she knew before I did)

[–] SlyBlue@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I knew I was upfront really early (having DID makes it hard to ignore these things or you'll wake up with it carved into your arm), but my trans hating mom STILL has so many pics of kid me (like 3-4) constantly crossdressing scattered all over her bedroom. Apparently I wanted to be a girl teenage mutant ninja turtle lol

Earliest I remember of me acting atypically was me constantly crushing on anime boys., especially the gundam wing guys omg especially Trowa. Like I'd endlessly talk about it and having elaborate weddings (weddings are stupid, child me was stupid). I was also constantly messing around with other dudes and getting caught

I did the same when I was emo in middle and high school but all the boys then were like "that smart fox is just kissing boys and being bi to get the girls!" Like hanging around emo girls all the time did get me the girls but like if they thought it was so effective they should've kissed me too

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[–] nemmybun@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

Attempting to make a proper response because I do wanna participate properly. Out of a mountain of moments, I can think of two glaring moments that are jaw-dropping obvious to me in retrospect:

High school me: "Without any pre-existing idea of what it meant to be trans, I wrote a short story that included a magical being who started existence as a woman, fragmented herself to have a male side, which I don't remember exactly why she had to but it was for protection from some other god. So throughout the story this being had warring male and female aspects and eventually the female aspect grew so powerful that she subsumed the male side entirely and she was made whole again."

Also high school me: "Wow I'm so creative. I pulled that idea out of absolutely nowhere and had zero subconscious input on any of my creative ideas. And I love the character so much that I'm going to use her name as my profile name in online spaces. Just because I like the name a lot, no other reason. Anyway time to needlessly suffer with unidentified dysphoria for well over a decade"

The other is the time I was group pressured into trying on a dress in middle school and I didn't care about wearing the dress as much as it was too small and not fitted for me and looked awful. I had to pretend I had an upset stomach so I could hide in the bathroom with the fan on and quietly sob over the thought that I would never be beautiful. You know, typical cis problems.

[–] good_girl@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh my god, I'm lying in bed reading some of these comments and remembered suddenly when I was around 10 my cousin left her one-piece swimsuit in our bath and I wore it and felt jealous that she got to wear something so cute and I didn't.

The retrospective realizations never end.

[–] good_girl@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

There was that time I was watching the Ghost in the Shell anime for the first time as a tween and consciously "Man I wish cybernetic bodies were real so I could become a girl. I don't know what I'd do with it though." clueless

There was that other time I discovered my

genital talkperineal rathe and basically prayed that my parents wanted a boy so badly that they'd given me GRS and that maybe I'd be able to "detransition." (though i didn't have the words for this at the time)


And then as an adult I got to know someone through an MMO and

depressing rant? idkwhen a mutual friend joked about me being their "waifu" they clearly reacted positively and though I was too closed off at the time to show it, the idea made me happy. I eventually developed feelings for them but I was afraid of being in another long distance relationship and though I never opened myself up to them in that way, a recurring fantasy at the time was that we could eventually meet up and "swap bodies." (He came out as a trans guy after we grew apart but at the time he showed clear disdain for femininity in himself and I guess i subconsciously picked up on that.)

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