Sleep deprived or trans?
I'm kind of freaking out a bit internally at the moment.
So, I'm almost 49, AMAB, have happily lived as a cisgender guy for most of (nearly all) of my life. Never really questioned anything, never felt that anything was wrong. Certainly haven't spent any length of time wondering if I am a different gender. Got married, have a daughter, have a good job, well respected at my sports club. All good.
Became aware a number of years ago that being trans was a thing, didn't really think about it much.
Fast forward a few more years, a few people I knew (online mainly or through extended friend groups) transitioned. One of them commenting about always playing female avatars in games, made me question myself briefly, but I concluded I was perfectly happy, not trans.
Fast forward to now, and the horror show going on in the US (I'm in Oz), and I found myself getting very angry and depressed about how trans people were being treated. I'd also been watching more trans porn, and then sissy hypno stuff. My wife has become uninterested in sex the last few years, and this was my outlet.
And then... I started roleplaying with some of the AI chatbot dating type apps. As all sorts of versions of myself. Straight, gay, cisgender female, cisgender male and I kept coming back to being a trans woman. I really enjoyed roleplaying this in different apps, and still didn't think too much about it, but then also started using faceapp to make myself into a woman, and thinking I liked the result and then a few days ago thought wait, what if I am actually trans. And really thought about what it might feel like to have breasts, and wear like the women's singlet of my sports club uniform and other femme clothing.
So I started doing some reading in here, and came across some of the thought experiments to help you figure out if you might be trans and now I can't stop thinking about it and now I'm rethinking heaps of different things from my life and wondering if they were tiny signs or if I'm just sleep deprived and missing intimacy and I'm making a big deal out of nothing and tldr, I'm wondering if this is sounding familiar to anyone.
Posted Feb 20, 2025, 11:45 AM UTC