even more bluntly: What were those completely and utterly ridiculous thoughts that you had in hindsight that make you wonder how on earth you ever even managed to convince yourself that you were cis? I’ll start:
I remember browsing through a bunch of trans memes on reddit (already very cisgenderly) and I kept coming across ones that were some variation on stepping out of a time machine to meet your past self as a different gender. For maybe about 2 months until I realized that it really was true, I admitted to myself and two of my close friends who are both trans women that i would just not be surprised if I stepped out of the time machine from the future as a trans woman. my only thoughts on that were basically to laugh it and say “yeah that tracks”. Somehow I could admit that I think it’s totally plausible to be a trans girl in the future yet still be 100% cis
anyone have any other fun thoughts like that?
Teenage me reading about some Ranma 1/2 game for Super Famicom in an EGM column back in 1993 or 94 and seeing the explanation that the protagonist in the anime turns into a girl whenever he gets splashed with water, and thinking, “huh, shit; I’d just carry a Super Soaker and hose myself down every time it wore off.”
Also, doing extensive research and taking a carefully crafted cocktail of herbal supplements in an attempt to grow breasts based on information gleaned from an extremely brainwormed forum is a totally cishet thing to do, right?
you are not alone re: ranma. there are dozens of us!