16-07-2014, 01:51 AM
No, I wouldn't have, and I'll explain why. I really didn't understand what gender dysphoria was until very recently. I was a classic Group 3 cloistered gender dysphoric young man as described by Dr. Anne Vitale:
"Group Three (G3) is composed of natal males who identify as female but who act and appear normally male. We can hypothesize that prenatal androgenization was sufficient to allow these individuals to appear and act normally as males but insufficient to establish a firm male gender identity. For these female-identified males, the result is a more complicated and insidious sex/gender discontinuity. Typically, from earliest childhood these individuals suffer increasingly painful and chronic gender dysphoria. They tend to live secretive lives, often making increasingly stronger attempts to convince themselves and others that they are male."
I was in denial of my female gender identity all my life, suffering the consequences until last year when I took steps to treat it using herbal HRT. I came out to my wife soon after and am in the process of coming out to my family at large now.
So it wasn't primarily the fear of my loved one's reactions that inhibited me, but rather the general lack of understanding about transgenderism throughout society and also in the psychiatric profession.
Clara
"Group Three (G3) is composed of natal males who identify as female but who act and appear normally male. We can hypothesize that prenatal androgenization was sufficient to allow these individuals to appear and act normally as males but insufficient to establish a firm male gender identity. For these female-identified males, the result is a more complicated and insidious sex/gender discontinuity. Typically, from earliest childhood these individuals suffer increasingly painful and chronic gender dysphoria. They tend to live secretive lives, often making increasingly stronger attempts to convince themselves and others that they are male."
I was in denial of my female gender identity all my life, suffering the consequences until last year when I took steps to treat it using herbal HRT. I came out to my wife soon after and am in the process of coming out to my family at large now.
So it wasn't primarily the fear of my loved one's reactions that inhibited me, but rather the general lack of understanding about transgenderism throughout society and also in the psychiatric profession.
Clara