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I could have not transitioned, but the alternative wasn’t staying cis. The alternative was not growing old.

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That’s about right.

It’s funny how I held on and didn’t transition for other people, but when I transitioned pretty much nobody cared that much. Transition felt impossible and so selfish before transitioning, yet on other side it seems like it was self-destructive to not transition and trivial compared to how difficult I thought it was going to be. (Though transition is difficult, don’t let me mislead - it’s just not nearly as bad as I thought it would be, and there are so many things that went better than I thought.)

I guess this is just a lesson in how easy it is to rationalize and build up your fears, and how you are your own biggest barrier.

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I currently have a similar thought proccesss to how you described yours.

Transitioning feels like this super selfish thing, where many of my friends and family will just not accept it, and where I drag people more down than I help myself.

Unfortunately I have not convinced myself to another point of view yet.

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To be fair, I never convinced myself of the other view point, even now I think transitioning is “selfish” in a sense, it’s just that on the other side I can confirm it wasn’t like I thought it would be and that there was also something “selfish” about never taking care of myself and being a burden on others because of that.

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People who would get “dragged down” by someone they know transitioning are doing it to themselves. There is no logic in laying the blame on the person transitioning.

It costs nothing to be kind and supportive to those around you, so I would consider those who won’t even do that, to be the selfish ones.

If a person struggles with someone they know transitioning, good, because maybe that finally provokes the introspection in them, required to become a better person.

If it doesn’t, I don’t know how to help them.

But I know how to help you. Transitioning is not selfish. It’s life-saving.

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7 points

Yeah same ~

(I’m working on it, okay)

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You can do it!

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