This is such an important idea to me. I might have transitioned much earlier if I didn't think you had to be traumatized by your body and gender in order to be valid in doing so.
Yes, the standard narrative is 'I always knew' and it's like, what if you don't know? What if you're kinda slow, like I was? I was drawing and writing about nonbinary characters for years before I started to think it meant something
