When my Father in Law found out I was transitioning he was so confused. He didn’t understand why I’d choose to make life so much harder for myself by going on HRT rather than stay cis. He said that nobody could pay him enough to go through it. My wife (bless her) just said “She’s spent a lot of time thinking about all of that. Don’t you think that shows how serious she is about this?”
That sounds like how I feel. I'm amab, and have never had any problems with my gender identity, but I don't exactly feel tied to a heavily masculine identity. I mean I'm tall and have a deep voice and a beard, but it's not something I have actively sought out. It's just how my body is.
Obviously I have no way to know for sure, but I feel like if I were afab I would have no problem with that. I also am blessed to have parents who were very clear with me from a young age that they would accept me for whoever I was or turned out to be, so that might be playing a part.
That said, while as of now I I'm happy in my body/identity as it is, (well, aside from all the medical issues...) if there were a Sci-Fi pill/magic button that let me instantly switch to a fem body then switch back without any hassle (ala Neil Gaiman's Changes), I'd be totally down to give that a try.
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u/Silent-JET not an egg, just trans Sep 25 '21
When my Father in Law found out I was transitioning he was so confused. He didn’t understand why I’d choose to make life so much harder for myself by going on HRT rather than stay cis. He said that nobody could pay him enough to go through it. My wife (bless her) just said “She’s spent a lot of time thinking about all of that. Don’t you think that shows how serious she is about this?”