Marisa

But I can't explain my eventual transition at 31 through anything other than a biological cause.

I looked obsessively for evidence of some repressed or unconscious ulterior motive, and found none.

I believed that transition would be very expensive and time-consuming, physically painful, reduce my attractiveness as a mate, and change my social possibilities.

All of these predictions have borne true.

What I didn't expect is that HRT drastically improved my mental health even before the physical changes kicked in.

My baseline now is my former 90th percentile of calm and happiness.

I'm N equals 1 but this shows Führer's phenotype can coexist with biologically rooted dysphoria.

Moreover, I believe my middle school social failures were caused as much by gender incongruence as by neurodivergence.

It's difficult to socialize when your puberty feels wrong and your social instincts don't match your assigned gender.

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It's almost like most of them had deep emotional wounds, often stemming from social rejection, and had transitioned to become cute girls or endearing women as a kind of questionably adaptive coping mechanism.

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Maybe.

Or a misaligned subconscious sex is part of what caused the social rejection in the first place.

Heading.

Conclusion.

As fewer implied, cuteness maxing is probably not a good reason to transition.

Most people desperately want to be loved and this can cause mistakes with transition in both directions.

Social media is probably bad for minors.

We should emphasize that, at a fundamental level, trans people are neither more nor less lovable than cis people.