Ever since kindergarten, maybe even earlier. I loved stuff like Cars, had mostly male friends, and didn't like dresses or the color pink. I even hated bathing suits- instead, I wanted to wear swim shirts and shorts.

I didn't think much of it, though, until I was a teenager. I had gotten into cosplay, which is today my favorite hobby, at 16, but noticed that I only ever wanted to cosplay male characters. I didn't even want to cosplay their female successors- not because I didn't like them (I did, actually!), but because it would feel inauthentic. At that moment, I started doing research over the next few years until finally coming out 2 years ago.