Transphobia before coming out as trans?

My only exposure to trans men in my whole life growing up was seeing part of a show where one was pregnant. And I only saw a tiny bit so most of my context on it was through my mom saying “that’s not a pregnant man that’s a woman!”

So even though now I obviously have respect for trans men who can carry a baby, totally support that, at the time it seemed too weird to me and I was thinking “so you’re gonna be a girl anyway you just wanna be weird” (very transphobic).

So with that as my entire vision of trans men I was a bit transphobic before I realized. Probably a lot because I knew I was never going to do that so I didn’t relate to him at all from the context I got. Probably set me back a bit in realizing. Not proud.

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