If it’s not too much to ask, what’s your sexual orientation and what impact did it play on the evolution of your gender identity? Are you attracted to women, and did that make it harder for you to realize you’re a transwoman? Did you initially think you were a gay man? Or was sexual attraction completely irrelevant?
Bisexual. It had… some kind of impact. My early sexual exploration was in some ways intertwined with my early exploration of my gender identity, but at the time I didn’t really have it fully formed in my head that being trans was a possible outcome. Rather, it was in this nebulous, “Hmm… I wonder what it’s like to be a woman?” kind of way.
That said, looking back, it explains a lot about why I’m attracted to men even though gay media didn’t do anything for me.