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i never thought i’d get to this point but i think i actually really really love being trans
i love that i’ve forged this gender for myself, that no one assigned it to me. i love that i have really interrogated who and what i am and have come out the other side with a stronger sense of self. i love knowing that i’ll never take this person i get to be for granted
for the longest time, i hated my own transness. i felt cheated, betrayed even, by the universe. getting to transition into womanhood felt like a consolation prize, when the thing i really wanted to be was a cis girl
but all of that negativity is gone now. i don’t have a memory of it leaving, but taking stock on where i’m at right now, i think i can honestly say that i’m thrilled to be exactly who i am. my transness is part of what makes me me, and it’s something i’ll cherish forever.
this isn’t the type of thing i like posting on main normally but i know a lot of trans folks have dealt with similar feelings toward their identity and i think there’s some value in being open about these types of internal struggles, and especially about overcoming them
mostly i just wish i could show this thread to myself in college, to reassure her that things really do get better
