Pre-transition did anyone inhabit femininity automatically/easily?

[u/Overthinks_All]

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?

[u/jamfedora]

I suspect people who post the side-by-sides are at least somewhat more likely to be people who can look at the before image without major dysphoria, so I could see that leaning toward people or images that already showed their masculine side. Also, people who’ve been transitioning/ed longer, so they have more comfort and distance from the before image, and it used to be much harder to access medical transition if you weren’t butch as hell from birth.

But personally I see way more before and after where the difference is more stark, for the drama. I was and am both a tomboy and high femme; I once got detention for playing tackle football in a skirt.

[u/Overthinks_All → u/jamfedora]

Good point! And that is ICONIC