It’s been seven years since I had my breasts removed. Eight years since injecting testosterone

Growing up, I didn’t think I was a “normal” girl.

I joined Tumblr when I was 14 and joined like-minded girls with the same taste in music and music.

It seemed illuminating to explore the true’ nature of my gender identity.

The internet didn’t cause my low-self-esteem, nor any of my pre-existing psychological vulnerabilities, but it did cause them to coalesce into an identity that I imagined to be permanent.

I was socially encouraged to interpret my fractured self-concept as an identity crisis rooted in gender.

I started to embrace the idea of being “weird” instead of unobtrusively going about my business, I flaunted my quirkiness.

Terrance Terrance wrote that he had a sexual and romantic attraction toward men while rejecting any sense of womanhood.

Terrance believed that he should have been born into a male body.

The idea of being a gay man became a beacon of hope, an alternative reality where love and acceptance awaited him, he writes.

He says he wanted to be free from this fixation, and from everything else that hurt him, including his gender dysphoria, loneliness and anxiety.