Yaoi was hitting a little too close to home

18

Had always kinda in the back of my head felt dysphoric. Came to a head when I was a freshman on the football team, there’s some team hazing they put makeup you and I cried cause I wanted to wear makeup.

13

i was a cheerleader as a kid and the team two ages up had a boy cheerleader and i was so jealous of him because that was so cool and brave and i wanted to be a boy cheerleader

11

it should've been when i would cry every time i was excluded from the 'boy presents' (for most holidays my brothers or cousins would get the same theme of gifts like knights or monster trucks or dragons, and i'd either not get it or i'd get the girl version) in reality, i was just completely devastated when i started developing female and the prospect of being a woman until i died

10

Some time during covid, but honestly way before that when I’d pretend to be a dude on Roblox as a kid

9

Don’t even remember I was going through some major shit after a traumatic incident and I barely remember the semester it happened in. I was in denial for a year or so beforehand so it was sort of a slow process. But the last straw? No idea. I think I hated myself and my situation so much that I wanted to become someone entirely different and that’s what triggered it. But other than that I got nothing. I think I’m realizing just now how little I remember of that period of my life.

8

I hated myself sm and I hated how I looked for so long but had no idea why and I didn’t know what to change. Then during covid I started trying to present more masc and then I cut my own hair and even though it was a fugly ass haircut it was super affirming lmao. So then I was like yeah I’m trans

8

reading the homestuck epilogues, one of the characters came out as trans and it inspired me

7

some dumb kid said some transphobic bs and it ruined my week.

6

i never actually had a moment, for me it was more like i never actively confronted gender but i was “fine” performing masculinity when i had to, until my freshman year of high school when i saw an introduction form with pronouns and something in that moment clicked where i realised i didn’t have to keep doing this (sounds so stupid i know but still) and from there it was like a ~year of experimenting and seeing what fit and now i’m vaguely transfem nonbinary

6

i was in an amino group chat (😭) and sent a pic of an essay i wrote where one guy thought my handwriting was feminine and him and another guy were questioning if i was a girl and i had this moment of panic and realization that i didn’t want to be seen that way and i 100% would’ve said no at the time if i didn’t have an irl friend in the same gc

5