I am 14M(AGAB) and started feeling gender dysphoria after starting puberty. At first I thought that I was agender. Soon, I found myself imagining being an AGAB agender, so I decided that I was not agender but a trans girl. However, after identifying as trans, I only feel gender dysphoria once a while, and it’s not string enough as before. I am now thinking that I might not be trans, and what I felt before was just a normal puberty experience. I’m afraid that I was thinking about myself all wrong.

  • Fiona@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    One thing to be aware of is that transitioning reduces dysphoria, and not just by a little.

    I’m well into my transition (currently on the waiting list for bottom surgery), with 1.5 years of HRT behind me and all the legal stuff completed and… I don’t feel all that much dysphoria these days… Because: Why would I? I’m beginning to really like how I’m starting to look these days and can even look at pre-transition pictures without issue and go: “This was me, can you believe it?”

    The earlier you are into your transition, the bigger the focus on being trans can be, until it eventually turns into less and less of a big deal.

    Self-doubts early on are btw. so common that I would frankly just consider them a symptom of gender-dysphoria in their own right.

    And to be clear, I can’t tell you what you are, but I can tell you that what you describe sounds like a very common experience and nothing to worry too much about.