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For those of you out there who are wondering about yourself: gender dysphoria is not a constant state of misery in which happiness is impossible.
It is entirely possible to be happy sometimes or even most of the time while also having gender dysphoria.
It is entirely possible to be happy sometimes or even most of the time while also having gender dysphoria.
Dysphoria doesn't even have to be a state of active dissatisfaction: it can, in fact, just be a more passive absence of satisfaction.
If you've never felt any positive association to your assigned gender, but played along because it's the team you got put in, that's dysphoria.
If you've never felt any positive association to your assigned gender, but played along because it's the team you got put in, that's dysphoria.
That's how it was for me: less an active hatred of being perceived as a man, more a distinct lack of any love for it. I can't remember any positive experiences I had pre-coming-out that I associate with my masculinity. There were positive experiences, but not from being a man.
Don't get me wrong, dysphoria CAN be an all-consuming force of misery that makes your life hell. There's a few times when it's been that way for me.
But it isn't ALWAYS like that, and you don't need to experience constant, debilitating depression to be a "real" trans person.
But it isn't ALWAYS like that, and you don't need to experience constant, debilitating depression to be a "real" trans person.
