If the symptoms fit you that's fine too, doin' their job for once. It's just that a lot of physicians and such tend to apply them as "subject must be young male with zero emotions, no social capability and an absurd interest in model train sets" type of thing, y'know? Women are hugely under-diagnosed because the criteria doesn't really see "female-typical" styles of masking.

I mean I thought puberty was gross but not everybody trans even has dysphoria, y'know? You're definitely not required to have been revolted by puberty or anything.

Uh it's like, since no human trait, physical or otherwise, is inherently gendered, then what even are "man" or "woman"? Could they even be defined, are they just a collection of vague traits that anybody could have? This combined with the Gender Accelerationist Manifesto really put the socially-constructed nature of binary gender into sharp focus for me, and I didn't really like the way western society weaponises the genders it colonialism'd everyone else with as a system of strict social and worker control. Doesn't feel that right to me.

I still call myself a lesbian and I can mostly fit in the "woman" box if someone puts me there, I am transfemme, but I'm also such a weird goblin with specific hobbies and intense autism that I only have the most vague relation to gender, beyond the whole estrogen thing, I guess