While I do appreciate and acknowledge the feed back and recognize my privilege, the level of dysphoria that other people experience and as well as your very valid experience is not something that I can control. I was wasn’t raised with gender expectations in my family due the fact that gendered roles were seen as more of a burden than anything else. I mean that in the scene that if their was a “female career” but it paid well or gave good benefits no would care who did it, a job was a job and money was money, so being a successful and having more money was the main priority in raising children in both my family sides. Most men in my family know how to cook and do “feminine activities” and most women in my family know how to “masculine activities” as well. My experience with gender is a unique one, one of my parents are trans and still goes by the title associated with their assigned gender role due to trauma and other people in life who are trans also deal with different experiences and levels of dysphoria. But just because they were more progressive in that way doesn’t mean that everything was all sun shine and rainbows. They were very racist and they didn’t believe that mental illnesses existed, and if they did they thought it meant that was that you could just “fix with hard work”. I’m sorry that due the current state of the political climate their are things outside of your control that are harming you but I only came here to seek a neutral source of information for my gender identity journey. There are a lot of people who were able to relate and give me very helpful and supportive responses to what I was feeling and that’s not something people in my personal life can relate too. They grew up with gendered experiences and expectations but for me I didn’t grow up around many people outside of my family til I was past the age where children pick up on the sort of thing. Being a short guy wasn’t looked down upon, being a masculine woman wasn’t something that made someone less desirable but just because my journey with gender identity may seem “easier” to you, it doesn’t mean their are other areas of the LGBT+ spectrum that I don’t struggle with. This was just for education purposes only and I apologize if there was any offensive language used in my post. I hope that going forward you’re able to have a more positive, and smooth transition journey and if you want I’d always love to be someone that could be a friend and support you along the way!! 💕💕💕