I feel like she used to be a darling of the old sub, but that seems to have stopped at some point and I now rarely see her mentioned.

  • Good_Username [they/them,e/em/eir]
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    4 years ago

    Something else to think about: even if it is true that every trans person has dysphoria (which, to be clear, I don't think is necessarily true, although I would claim that the vast majority of us do have dysphoria), it's sometimes really hard to recognize that what you're experiencing is dysphoria. So saying you don't need dysphoria to be trans can help questioning people be open to the idea that they may be trans even if they don't think they have dysphoria.

    I know this was the case for me; 3 years ago if someone had asked me if I felt dysphoria, I would have said no. But now I'm 3 months post top surgery and I've been on hormones for nearly a year. I had dysphoria all along, but I never would have recognized it if I hadn't allowed myself to think "hmm, maybe I'm trans, even though I don't have dysphoria".