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I am an adult dude with gender incongruence. Lately, I've been encountering conversations that have left me stumped, even though people initially genuinely tried to help. I would like to know about your experiences, especially if you are also men. When you tried to explain your need for urgent hormone therapy to medical and social workers, did you ever feel like cis people were trying to convince you that living with the correct pronouns is enough, that people simply categorize each other into groups and this shouldn't affect you, that you are simply hyperfixated and need to wait and distract yourself, etc.? Have you ever felt like someone was genuinely trying to support you, but then felt uneasy, like they didn't believe you, or infantilized you, or treated your body dysphoria like weight insecurity or other body dysmorphic disorder problems? Or tried to convince you that you shouldn't look at other people (meaning cis people) with envy. Was it also like they didn't understand why you are trying to change your secondary sexual characteristics and are "obsessed" with your body in a country where sexism is low? I've had conversations that felt like they were trying to convince me I could focus my attention elsewhere and not demand HRT as soon as possible, and that I had hyperfixation. If that were how things worked, then I'd be cis. It's as if I want to get a nose job or buy a car, not adjust my secondary sexual characteristics to the gender of my brain. And sometimes I feel like people don't understand why being a man is so important to me. Does this resonate? I feel so irritated and tired. I'm not angry at these people. I just want people to believe me. Really believe

Posted Dec 13, 2025, 10:48 AM UTC

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