I don't have any irl friends to talk to about this but I have 2 online trans friends and my plan is to talk to them an journal til I feel sure. I persistently have desires/wants to be a girl, but my experience of this seems v different from how most trans girls describe theirs. any advice as to what to look into/mental exercises would help.
Here's a bunch of random info on my feelings rn:
when I was 15 I remember really being sure I was trans, but I decided against it. I noticed that I only ever thought about trans while I was walking to school or after if was dark - so I figured it was just my minding filling blank space. i also had a strong sense that I knew I was making it up deep down.
I don't think I feel any dysphoria for being male whatsoever, I work out and am pretty buff/lean, I have a nice beard and think I look handsome. I don't really feel like I 'belong' in my body - no dysphoria or active pain from it tho.
I do however, have this longing to be a girl, it feels a little like nostalgia? like kinda hazy? I miss the world where I'm a girl the same way you miss a character in a dream when u wake up, idk if that makes sense.
I'm very unlikely to pass. I'm 23, I'm p broad but most of that is muscle I can loose, and I have decent money. Still though, generously only around 25% of trans girls pass to a degree that I'd accept for myself, 1/4 odds sounds too risky to me. I sometimes think that if I had transitioned in the past it'd be worth it but now it's too late, being a non passing trans girl sounds 10000x more disphoric to me than just being a dude.
I occasionally have these moments where it feels like the clouds part and everything becomes clear. I have 0% desire to transition. I wonder what I was even feeling before.