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I just realized something about myself and why I get irritated when people criticize trans people for pushing people into transitioning or making a decision before they're ready. It's because I offer encouragement, but not towards transition; and I know very well that it can be seen that way.

I encourage what people might see as specific behaviour, as if to bait-and-switch someone who is questioning, not to get them to commit to deciding what they are - but to learn how to express themselves in ways that will help them figure that shit out.

My transition went the way it did because I knew that I wanted to express myself more openly, and how I wanted to do it - I was being held back by the perception of my gender identity. I became trans so that I could do more shit that I wanted to, but felt like who I was meant that I couldn't.