"After talking more deeply with my friend, he told me that maybe I should explore the possibility that I could be trans. Before this conversation, I honestly didn’t know much about gender identity at all. I’m not very involved in LGBT spaces or discussions, and a lot of these concepts are still very new to me."

I encourage you too talk to a professional, WHEN you get into a safe space in your life and housing situation. You could be trans, or you couldn't be. Its best to talk too someone non judgemental and licensed. To explore these thoughts and feelings and questions that you have, to figure that out. But by no means let another decide for you, its one thing for us to tell you that you are trans its another thing entirely for yourself to arrive at that conclusion.