Ooof, he's an adult so I didn't expect to feel sad when I read that. But I did. He wrote this! "It seems I can’t consider my own masculinity or lack of femininity without relying on some of the worst and most pernicious sex-based stereotypes. This suggests to me that the enterprise itself is suspect."

In his later article on why he decided to transition, he says he intentionally omitted his body dysmorphic feelings about his breasts, hips, and lack of penis from this article. But what he didn't explain in that article, is that he developed those feelings at puberty, was raised in a household with a fair amount of pressure to enact femininity, and had an eating disorder. That comes up in his Atlantic article (https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/07/transition-parents/564008/) So he actually has even more similarities to the detransitioner narratives than I realized, and I'm pretty sure he's doing a lot of projection when he writes and tweets negatively about them.

I tried to find where he mentioned deciding to transition after going to a gender therapist, but I can't find it. So maybe I made an assumption. It is weird to me how he could write the butch lesbian article and the Atlantic article and never consider that maybe he could have been happy as a GNC lesbian with more social support earlier on. I also am curious how effective T really has been on masculinizing his body. His facial features look very masculine to me, but the majority of trans men I've seen in form fitting clothes clearly still have feminized bodies. T is powerful, but it doesn't seem to be as powerful as trans men believe. I think the more familiar the general public becomes with what trans men look like, the less they'll pass as cis men.