I came out as trans and went on hrt in my mid 20s. The positive impact it's had on my mental health is staggering, but it's also made me feel a certain sense of resentment towards society at large. If someone had just allowed me to try some girls' clothes or girls' toys when I was a child, I probably could've figured this stuff out two decades earlier and saved myself some periods of terrible mental health. But no, I was a "boy", so I had to wear boys' clothes and play with boys' toys. It's difficult not to mourn the little girl that could have been and resent society about that.
