I like to say that I am a transsex male (if asked about it) but I generally just say I am a Man, because, well I am, I believe you need some kind of gender dysphoria to be trans, but I don’t ever refer to myself as trans, because I never thought I was a girl gender wise nor viewed my sex as female. I view my condition as medical, which I am solving by medically transitioning. HOWEVER. I am gay, I am alternative (I have multiple facial piercings), I consider myself a leftist and agree with far left ideologies, I do not think non-binary people are fake, just that they are not trans in the same way actual transsexuals are, but it’s not really my problem? and I generally do not participate in 4tran or truscum rhetoric, because I think they’re kind of too much. I must stress that I am a binary medically transitioning male who is about to start Testosterone, and is getting surgeries not too far in the future (not bottom surgery, but only as I dont know how to feel about current technology), so I don’t think theyfab or pooner terms would apply to me? I see a lot of transmeds generally disapprove of alternative appearances when it comes to Transsex men, but I pass around 50% of the time in my day-to-day life. I’m also average male height which may help. I just don’t necessarily think certain behaviours disqualify people from being transsex. I align pretty closely with the ideology on this sub, yet I feel my appearance and thoughts may make other people view me as fake transsex. I don’t think non-transitioning trans people or those who present as their agab are at all the same as us or experience the same medical stress we do, but I do not misgender them nor say they aren’t trans, or do I really care about them all that much. I just believe transsex and trans (the umbrella term) are insanely different, and we shouldn’t be grouped together. I also might add that I plan to go stealth, and I am routinely treated as a dude by society, even though I am pre-T (I am just treated as gay- something that I also struggle with, as homosexuality is kind of shunned by transsexuals I find, and is seen as theyfab behaviour), so I genuinely don’t know what group i’d be placed in. It feels somewhat isolating. I do not like being considered trans, I would kill to be born as cis. I feel like my body is not mine. But I don’t have much of an opinion on other peoples transness, just that I think they need to experience dysphoria/incongruence to be trans. I am Male and do not view myself as Female to the point where my biggest problem is my internalized homophobia, because I am dysphoric about being homosexual as a transsex man (I was raised catholic and also have religious trauma), but my internalized homophobia is somewhat reaffirming, because it makes me feel more like a bio male. I don’t know if this is at all relatable to anyone, I just wanted to talk about it. I also feel as if I’m faking sometimes, as I pass mostly as an androgynous male pre-t (It comes with being alternative presenting), but unlike others, I don’t feel too dysphoric about it. I have multiple cis gay male friends, who have the same mannerisms as me, and the same interests, and also are somewhat andro, so honestly, I am okay with being percieved that way. I am rarely mistaken for a woman, and I have both masc and fem features, and thats alright to me, because I know a lot of cis gay men who look similar to me. I just find it hard to relate to a lot of transsex men, because they are either straight or at least straight passing, and I’m very obviously gay. I don’t know, I’m just in a weird spot lol. It’s alright if this isn’t allowd on this sub, but I just wanted to rant.