It bothers me this is still an issue.

I love this. I can't say exactly why, but the parallel between this and a scene in story I'm holding onto to make someday, hopefully soon, is really significant to me.

you are a hell of a writer

I can't speak for my trans masc friends, but the trans fem experience has so much in common with the Heroine's Journey it's stupid.

I've been lucky. I've never cared about fitting in or being like other people, I never felt the need to hide who I am (well part of me but that is genuinely not a good part of me) and being a cis gendered heterosexual male has helped with that. It saddens me that so many have to hide-