CW internalized transphobia, gender dysphoria
To be clear, I understand there’s no cutoff on the age of transition. But I swear to god I keep coming across this talking point made in the worst way possible. They’re trying to reassure young people who are insecure about having gone through their first puberty already but they’ll say some shit like, “I didn’t start transitioning until I was 24 and it still turned out well for me.” And you look at their before pictures and they were conventionally attractive and had other advantages like being transfemme with minimal natural body hair growth. Like goddamn that is not reassuring.
This bothers me too. Of course I wish I had transitioned earlier (who doesn't?), but I'm still young and I never thought age would be an issue. Then I see so many people online talking like even pretty early twenties is a really late age to transition and get self-conscious about it.