honestly the idea that a 22-year-old would say to another human person that they are an "elder" speaks volumes about the insecurity of what it is like being 22, exactly the reason 22 year olds shouldn't be filling that role of elder.
i wonder if the thing they meant was that they are a mentor to trans teens? like perhaps they werent even thinking about us trans ppl over 30 bc all the trans ppl they know are between 16 and 20?
thats how it's felt for me (25) as one of the oldest trans people i knew until relatively recently, so
in specific i was working through my own shit and fighting to get access to HRT at the time (i had known i was trans since i was 16 and just denied HRT for eight years that fucked me up majorlike) but i was also thrust into the position of the Older Trans Gal Who Seems To Have It Figured Out for a lot of people and tbh i still kinda am put in that position despite... really not being that tbh
