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The original was posted on /r/detrans by /u/Dirtydog91 on 2023-10-03 15:19:16.

A little backstory here is that when I was young boy I loved doing girl things and always thought the ‘girls had more fun’.

I still did boy things mainly and enjoyed it but there was this part of me that thought it would be awesome to be a girl and be able to dress up, play with dolls and listen to girls music.

After about 12 I realised I was gay and thought again that it would be so much better and easier to be a girl as I wouldn’t have to pretend to be straight as a man or come out as gay. I struggled with this for some time until I was about 16 and came out as gay.

I’m 32 years old now and I’m very happy to be a man. I’m really glad that adults never questioned my gender identity (partly because I never said anything and partly because this was the late 90s/early 00’s and transitioning wasn’t such a big thing and pretty much unheard of in children/adolescents).

Listening to people that have got caught up in medical transition, it kinda gives me shivers to think what could have happened if I was born just 10 years or so later. I’m pretty certain that if it was suggested to me that I could be a female born in a male body I would have really believed that.

Like I said I’m a fully grown man now and very much happy to be. I didn’t have gender dysphoria but I was definitely not happy being a boy for a few years of my puberty years.