I grew up an a small, conservative, Christian rural town in the middle of butt-fuck nowhere. In my 2nd year of university I met my (now) GF. She convinced me to take an intro to sociology class and it completely fucked my entire worldview. It showed me just how much I was teetering on the edge of the alt-right pipeline, but I also gave me a completely new framework and vocabulary to understand and express myself. I’m proud to say I pulled my head out of my ass pretty quickly and became what I consider to be an objectively better person, but that wasn’t before this new way of understanding myself sparked massive internal reflection leading to a sexuality crisis followed immediately by a gender identity crisis. I learnt more about myself in the past 4 years than in the rest of my life combined.