Reply To: How Do You Know if You Are Trans?
RandomdadHi, everyone. I’m a straight married male with 2 kids. I’m also a cigar smoking, whiskey drinking “mans man”
For the first 35 years of my life, I was a firm believer that trans people and gay people was not a product of nature and was pretty much their own fault or their parents fault. I assumed maybe a very small percentage of them were naturally this way and the rest were just a head case. I think a lot of people have this same notion.
But then I had kids. I have a 4 year old and a newborn. My entire life revolves around kids now whether its my kids or other children. Kids are transparent, they don’t understand what society expects of them so they are who they are without a care in the world. I came to the startling realization that so much of us has to do with how we are born and little to do how we were raised. These kids cannot be taught to be girly or masculine, or what they like and don’t like. There are numerous households with 3 or 4 children and often one of them doesn’t want to dress or act like they are “supposed to.” Great families with 100% chance they were born that way. It is so incredibly obvious.
I came to the realization, there must be so many gay and trans people out there just hiding and would never admit it. The percentage of kids that are clearly not interested in being they way they are “supposed” to be is way higher than there are adults that are openly gay and trans. I seriously feel so bad for those people just trapped. If I had to put a guess on what percentage of the population was born trans or gay, I’d put it at a solid 10%. That’s a staggering number of people. And only 1 out of 10 actually come out and be who they want to be.
I registered here to tell any of them who might be casually browsing there is nothing wrong with them at all. You’re not insane. You were born that way. Grow a pair of balls, (or cut off a pair of balls lol) and be who you want to be, you’re not going to change.
If you are really frightened, move to a major city. In big cities you have anonymity and it has to be so much easier.
Good luck!
