DYSPHORIA?
When I was a baby, I had my first gender surgery. It was a non reversible cosmetic genital mutilation that an evil profit driven health industry convinced my parents I needed. As I continued to grow up as a closeted transgender woman, I was told to always be an example so that people would want what I have and convert to my lifestyle. I was raised in the mindset that my lifestyle was the only one that produced happiness and it was my duty to convince others to join in for their own good. I even spent 2 years of my early adulthood while others were furthering their education to go door to do trying to convince people to join my lifestyle. A lifestyle in which I felt like I needed to hide who I was. I was an evangelical christian and I was not convincing people to be trans, but to believe exactly as I did about god. I find it ironic that many of those who encourage that behavior, now think I am trying to "make" everyone trans by shoving my lifestyle down their throats (me thin...