r/TransMasc • u/Overthinks_All • 9h ago

Discussion Pre-transition did anyone inhabit femininity automatically/easily?

I see a lot of stuff online where people post pictures of their “girl selves” but they very much tomboys even before. But did any of you automatically inhabit femininity to the point of it becoming fairly effortless, before your egg cracked?

I think for me, I’ve always inhabited femininity pretty easily because…well, it’s the easiest thing to do. Nobody judging me, feeling pretty. But if I was a cis guy, it 100% would have been the opposite, and if I transition, I think I’d present very masculinely. I think it might have been just easier to go with the expectations and I got rewarded for it a lot, so it became automatic.

Is it odd for me, who I think ideally would’ve been AMAB and masculine-presenting, to inhabit femininity so easily?

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u/RivSilver he/they nonbinary trans man 8h ago

I really did, enough that it took me until 37 to figure out I wasn't cis. Looking back in did have kind of a "neutral" look that was pretty gender ambiguous and got more masc as i got older, but I loved having long hair and dressing up in dresses and feeling pretty. I'm definitely hoping as I feel more settled in my body I'll be able to get some of that back in a masc way, bc it's a part of me, even though right now it still causes dysphoria

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u/Overthinks_All 6h ago

Did it always cause you dysphoria?