@ikea_femme There's so much going on in your hex. I worry you might be misled without some words.

1. "Truscum" reflects folk who think all transgender folk need to have the same experience, including gender dysphoria, or else they aren't transgender.

2. Abuse is transparent. In many cases, folk in group therapy realize how they have been abused by hearing similar tales from their mates, and witnessing the emotions from that confession. Abuse is so insidious that it comes in many forms, and can be normalized into invisibility with each.

Finally, I live in a largely transphobic culture. This has aspects of abuse as well.

@ikea_femme I've had somewhat similar worries, because most of my childhood has been so vague and detached from me in my recollection. I have never found anything in my past even hinting at a definite traumatic incident, though, just a lot of general misery that's more consistent with dysphoria.