Feeling very fraudulent by calling myself Trans
I (19) recently realized after dealing with it internally that I am trans (mtf). I came out to a few select friends who I knew would support me no matter what. But since then I have just been thinking about how to come out to other people. One of the things that really just got into my head during this was that I never really showed any signs at all growing up.
I don’t really remember much of my earlier childhood, but I can say with a high degree of confidence that I never wanted to be a women during my elementary years. I only started to question myself late high school and I never really displayed any signs externally.
That combined with the fact that I really don’t experience dysphoria (or at least how others have describes it), has me feeling like a fraud by calling myself a Trans person.
A part of me feels that I may genuinely be wrong and am just “confused” or something. But whenever I get called by the right pronouns and new name, it genuinely makes me very happy. But it just feels like I have not experienced what I should have to really call myself Trans.
Posted Apr 6, 2026, 1:15 PM UTC