I think we need a term for "I would have been transed" narratives, especially regarding claims by manifestly gender normative women (e.g. J.K. Rowling for example!!) who claim that they had clinical gender dysphoria and "would have been transed".

The term I'm going to start using is going to be "Speculative Dysphoria Narratives". I'm quite wary that I don't want to disregard that for many people, particularly through childhood, and often enough later in life, experience and preference around gender can be fluid and change

However the addition to this experience of a *medical* claim ("I would have been diagnosed with this thing, despite that I no longer experience it") from such a long distance away, I think it really is quite reasonable for us to question the work these narratives are doing.

As someone who has been diagnosed multiple times, first with primary transsexualism, and later with Gender Dysphoria when I had to go via a different clinic, the ways that these people describe their experiences of being a young person who doesn't care much for the restrictions..

... of gender roles is really quite a lot different from my personal experience of being a dysphoric transsexual individual.

Their differences from my experiences of gender issues would bother me a lot less if it were just a discussion of their experience but what it actually functions as is doing RHETORICAL work in practice. Being trans in the particular way that I and many other dysphoric trans...

...people are is a pretty unusual experience and I can easily imagine how there are a great many women who grew up wanting to play football and being frustrated at being told you can't do this because you're a girl who somehow persuade themselves that this is the same as...

...a serious inability to reconcile yourself to life in the sex you were registered as at birth. But honestly the details sound nothing familiar at all to me. Even with the differences that exist between trans people over this stuff (regarding "gender euphoria" discussions etc)..

.. these cis feminists sound, to me, a great deal more different than that.

Anyway, the term I'm going with is "Speculative Dysphoria Narratives", because it seems descriptive and not unduly judgemental and allows us to discuss how these function, where they are deployed and for what purpose without getting too caught up in whether they're valid or not.