OK. Here comes a difficult, if probably quite short, thread. I imagine a bunch of this is going to be no surprise at all to a lot of you, but I wanna get it off my chest.

So here it is. I'm trans.

I don't talk about this publicly (or at least haven't until now), because, honestly? It doesn't feel like a huge deal to me.
I was born with some anatomical anomalies, and now I take a bunch of medication to fix that. It's no biggie. Titty skittles are great.

There is the added bonus where being stealth makes you less vulnerable to bigots, because if you slide under their radar they don't know to bigot at you. And that's a plus.

But at the same time, like, I feel like I get shut out of discussions about trans issues because, if you're assumed to be cis, your views get discounted - even when you *are* trans. And I've found this to be stifling.

Plus, there's all the little efforts of keeping your identity under wraps. It adds up. And, like, I don't like feeling like I'm keeping secrets. It gets under my skin. Misleading people feels icky.
In the end it felt easier to just come out with it.

So there it is. Now to go back to not talking about it, because, as I say, it's not that big a deal to me. It's just a problem I'm fixing.

(Also, to that one anon on /tg/ who's been CONVINCED I'm trans for literally years? Congratulations, you were right all along! You also did a bunch of slurs and misgendering and it /hurts/ when you do that, and I don't know what I ever did to you to deserve it.)

shitty responses to this thread will, of course, be getting blocked. Please play nice in the comments for fucksake.