@listelian No, but it sounds like a good analogy. I think the thing is so long as trans representation is so bad, it's hard to see yourself as trans until you see real trans people living life as you would.

Frankly, I think the big thing that changed me from "A guy who joked a lot about castration and was real numb" to "a trans woman" was seeing so many trans people on Twitter and Tumblr with similar hobbies. In retrospect, there were some big clues I was trans, but I never followed them beyond, "Transition sounds really hard, and if I needed to transition, I'd have known it all along."