"I dont experience any dysphoria but I'm still trans"

IDK, I definitely have dysphoria so it's not my experience but the obsession that we have over making sure dysphoria is part of someones experience has always felt like some kind of transphobia, like that we are saying trans people need to suffer to be valid. While I am a dysphoric person, I only discovered my dysphoria through gender euphoria, I only realized I wasn't comfortable being perceived as a girl when I realized I was comfortable being a guy, until that point I was pretty neutral about the way people interpreted my gender. I can very easily see why someone would realize they are a different gender than assigned without it having to be some big painful thing.

Being trans is about being a different gender than you were assigned at birth, gender dysphoria is about discomfort experienced because of differences between the gender you know yourself to be and the gender people see you as. If someone knows themselves to be a guy but just isn't bothered when people misgender them or isn't bothered by their body, I think that's valid. If they are a guy, then they are still a guy even if being read as a girl doesn't hurt them.

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