Did/do you have any role models who are LGB?

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[–]BiHorror 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Nope. Majority of the people I "looked up" to were straight. I did have a cousin who was an out lesbian but I barely saw her.

Depending on how we define "gender dysphoria" (I'm seeing this as sex dysphoria). I'm pretty sure I had it when I was younger, at some point breaking down and begging my mother that I wanted to be a "boy." Especially due to the fact that I had same sex attraction and thought I would be normal if I became basically a "straight man." Then for a very short period, I decided I would try being a "she/they" (NB gender). Now, I just live as a bi androgynous woman now.

[–]reluctant_commenter[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Especially due to the fact that I had same sex attraction and thought I would be normal if I became basically a "straight man."

Yeah, I think that was part of the draw for me, as well. It's tempting, lol. "If you could just be a man then society won't think your attraction to women is wrong!" Except you can't just "become a man," of course. And we ought to be able to accept same-sex attraction anyway.

[–]BiHorror 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"If you could just be a man then society won't think your attraction to women is wrong!" Except you can't just "become a man," of course.

And even that wouldn't work majority of the time with regular people.

we ought to be able to accept same-sex attraction anyway.

Yep, but with some of the shit tras (and some lgb themselves alongside homo/biphobes) has been doing, acceptance for that is slowly going down. At least in the western world.