I’m a middle aged trans woman, When I transitioned it was really hard to get medical professionals to give you hormones. Doctors had no idea what to do, looked up the WPATH standard of care, and would tell me I needed 2-4 years of therapy that I couldn’t afford to confirm my gender identity (that I had been confident about my entire life) before they would consider hormone replacement. I had to fight doctors and society for years to be accepted as a woman.

I very much do not want any enbies to feel rejected or go through anything like I had to go through, but I feel like I went through all that fight to have the labels and identity I tried so long to be embraced as to be erased for something else.