What is a gender transition?

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It's not transitioning from one gender to another.

My gender has always been "girl," from the moment I was born through the present day.

It has never been "boy," regardless of what I or anyone else falsely believed for the first 30 years of my life.

And this is the source of my gender dysphoria: living under the false assumption that I'm a boy, when, in fact, I'm a girl.

It's not that I was a boy but didn't like it, so now I'm changing into a girl.

It's that I was a girl who had been misdiagnosed as a boy.

That's why I feel so much better after six months on hormone replacement therapy. My body is finally getting the hormones that it needs... that it had ALWAYS needed but never received. And it's getting rid of the hormones that it doesn't need... that it NEVER needed.

And that is why I feel so much better after six months of living publicly as a woman. My gender is finally getting the validation that it needs... that it had ALWAYS needed. And it's finally being freed of the invalidation that it suffered for three full decades.

So my transition is this:

I'm transitioning from living with a misdiagnosis of my gender to living one with a correct diagnosis.

I am transitioning from living a life that is out-of-sync with my gender to living a life that is in-sync with my gender.

I'm transitioning from pretending to be a boy to embracing that I'm a girl.

I've always been a girl. Even when I pretended to be a boy.

I've always been transgender. Even when I pretended to be cisgender.

I'm just finally recognizing and embracing and living in sync with the truth.

That's my transition.