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[–]Locke 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I've only very recently started the process of accepting that I'm bi. Part of my realization was I've often had thoughts like, "If I really loved someone maybe it wouldn't matter to me if they somehow magically switched bodies." I had a lot of work to do to get rid of the sexual repression and homophobia I grew up with being raised Catholic, though. I also never dated until I was over 20 and admittedly used to have very skewed views of romance. I think my same sex attraction was so repressed the body switching thoughts were a way to "justify" it to myself. The sexual repression is far from the only trauma I've been through, too. I've admitted in other comments here that the label demisexual helps me but it's probably a trauma response. So many trans people need to admit how much of their wanting to transition is a trauma and repression response, probably often very similar to how I "justified" same sex attraction in my head before admitting it for what it was. It's sad we're not getting so many people the help they really need, and we're raising kids to hate themselves so much they think transitioning will fix them somehow. What a sick world we live in.