#Trans friends, I was thinking about our diverse stories, and found myself wondering about the age you knew you were trans (whether you had language to describe it or not)?
I didn't know until my late 40s. Earlier, I knew I was different, but not really in what way.
When did you know?
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@taedryn this is difficult for me to answer because I grew up under section 28 in the UK and so beyond the fact that some people had sex changes as told in my parents and media's jokes (solely mtf - trans men and NB people didn't exist) I knew nothing.
Until the age of 10 I just thought something would happen when I grew up where people would stop thinking I was a boy as I become a woman because that was just what I was. Without any knowledge or guidance from 10 on wards was just learning to supress and feel shame at what I felt so that until I was in my late 20's if anyone had said I might be trans I would have laughed.
That it was was even possible never crossed my mind until my early 30's - despite by this point thinking of my child hood as 'when I was a little girl', 'I would be happier as a woman - I should have been a woman' etc. It was only seeing trans people like myself - not conventional pretty or thin - transitioning and being happy that I realised I was the same
taedryn 🏳️⚧️
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