even more bluntly: What were those completely and utterly ridiculous thoughts that you had in hindsight that make you wonder how on earth you ever even managed to convince yourself that you were cis? I’ll start:
I remember browsing through a bunch of trans memes on reddit (already very cisgenderly) and I kept coming across ones that were some variation on stepping out of a time machine to meet your past self as a different gender. For maybe about 2 months until I realized that it really was true, I admitted to myself and two of my close friends who are both trans women that i would just not be surprised if I stepped out of the time machine from the future as a trans woman. my only thoughts on that were basically to laugh it and say “yeah that tracks”. Somehow I could admit that I think it’s totally plausible to be a trans girl in the future yet still be 100% cis
anyone have any other fun thoughts like that?
Nah I just remembered something, I used to pray daily to Allah to somehow make me a girl
"man being a lesbian seems so nice. too bad i’m a boy. if only i were trans, then i could be a girl. oh well.
"man being a lesbian seems so nice
probably could have figured it out years before too if I knew just how common of a feeling that was. I knew I was bi since I was like 16, and I knew that romantic attraction a gender really changes depending on where it’s coming from, but I always felt like WLW just beat out MLM romance and I was jealous that I couldn’t do it. In retrospect, it is really funny to consider how I only really liked men in a straight way
same
Always playing as a woman in videogames, wearing women’s underwear to bed because I like how it feels, laying fetal position in the shower and crying because I wished I could get pregnant, getting out of the shower and wrapping my towel around like a skirt and admiring it in the mirror, looking into hormone therapy and surgeries in a private browser tab even though no one else uses my computer. Normal guy stuff.
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Always being in the boys dorms during camp
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regularly fantasising how cool it would be to have a penis
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wearing a fake moustache at every dress up event
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copying the bad posture of the boys from my class
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gallery full of faceapp screenshots 7 years before I started E
“If I could take a pill and change genders for a day, I would do that just for fun”
“I wish I was born a girl so then I could be a transguy”
“I wish I was trans but I like my dick too much”
Me finding out I can just keep my dick if I want to
“I wish I was born a girl so then I could be a transguy”
Other people think that too?!
If you fantasize about being trans than, perhaps, you may be trans
I wish someone had told me this
I think it’s about exploring the concept of being trans in a “safe” entirely theoretical way
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
-fantasizing a lot about what if I was a girl in a next life -wishing I had an older sister or girl friend that would make me to crossdress -always having a list of female names ready to go for some reason -wishing my puberty failed so I wouldn’t get the typical male puberty development
there was always something slightly irritating to me about the idea of there being women’s bathrooms and women’s lockerrooms because as a cis man unless i was the janitor or something, there was literally zero reason i ever had to go inside there. there’s something that taunted me about there being this room that exists in a building that only some people could go into but not me. i didn’t feel like i cared what was in there (typing that out, i think i actually did) but like, “room i couldn’t go into” always rubbed me the wrong way.
“room i couldn’t go into” always rubbed me the wrong way
I’m with you there
Teenage me reading about some Ranma 1/2 game for Super Famicom in an EGM column back in 1993 or 94 and seeing the explanation that the protagonist in the anime turns into a girl whenever he gets splashed with water, and thinking, “huh, shit; I’d just carry a Super Soaker and hose myself down every time it wore off.”
Also, doing extensive research and taking a carefully crafted cocktail of herbal supplements in an attempt to grow breasts based on information gleaned from an extremely brainwormed forum is a totally cishet thing to do, right?
you are not alone re: ranma. there are dozens of us!
Buying women’s underwear as soon as you had you’re own place and sometimes just sitting around wearing it is pretty cis right?
Just a normal guy with no non binary or gender fluid thoughts at all. Why’d you think that
Yeah, man. Just watching TV and whenever a character cross dresses as a haha funny joke you start blushing like a bro. Like a real guy. A proper dude. King shit.
Just sitting here blushing in my cute underwear like a fuckin dude ya know
“Formal dress occasions are the absolute worst.”
Saying shit like “I don’t mind being a guy, but if I got magically transformed into a girl I’d totally be okay with it”
Having long hair since I was about I think 8? And using it to cover my face because I didn’t like they way it looked
When I was very little I asked my mom when we were clothes shopping if I could try on a dress, that didn’t go well
Playing as a girl in Terraria and feeling both happy and very guilty about to the point where I asked my sister if it was okay for me to do that (thankfully she was nice about it and said yeah)
“Playing as a girl in Terraria” omg are you me?!?!?!
Somehow I could admit that I think it’s totally plausible to be a trans girl in the future yet still be 100% cis
One of my favorite sci-fi themes is when the mechanism of time travel is used to explore characters’ refusal to accept their own selves. Dark (2019) is a very good show about that theme, and it has some trans undetones so I’d recommend it!
Anyway, sadly I don’t have anything to contribute to the thread outside of that.
Here’s a decent, albeit bittersweet, short manga that has a neat take on the time travel question that I really enjoyed after it was recommended here on hexbear.
oh i love that one! i think i was the one to recommend it lmao
I’m almost certain you were! Your recs don’t miss
I one time told my older sister that I wanted her to take me to buy a skirt because it would be comfier for me, I was 14
i fucking hated myself during my teenage years, my most normal “very cis actually” thought was that i would love to volunteer for some project where they’d turn my brain into a computer and i’d just be a formless intelligence inside a computer who would use a synthetic lady voice to converse with all the scientists and appear on a hologram pedestal in feminine forms like all the AIs do in sci-fi
