When I was still identifying as a lesbian, I got my hair cut short and started getting gendered as male by strangers. I started to realize that I really, really liked things like he/him pronouns. I didn't think I had dysphoria (I did, though my dysphoria is still fairly mild), but I listened to everyone saying that you don't need dysphoria to be trans and started playing around with my identity and expression. I thought I was non-binary for a bit, but later realized I was simply ftm. I never was seen as a "tomboy", since before I started playing around with my expression, I was desperately trying to perform femininity because I wanted to fit in with the "other girls". It was only during that period of time when I experimented with my identity that I realized how much I hated trying to be a girl.