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#### [[You can discover your transness at any point in life]]
Through the [[Gender self-socialization model]] we can see that children don't have to be forced to conform to their assigned [[gender]] or have their true gender shunned in order to repress themselves.
While many in the trans [[community]] have obvious signs from their [[childhood]],
lack of those signs doesn't mean they weren't there and doesn't make your transness any less valid,
[[Our understanding of gender begins at a very early age]] so
you very well could have understood your [[gender]] and simply be unable to remember it
because:: [[Trans children will repress their dysphoria if they have been effectively taught it is unacceptable]].
This is
why:: [[Any experience of gender is acceptable]].
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**Status**:: #EVER/GREEN
*edited 7:35 AM - July 08, 2022*
**Topics**:: [[Transgender people]], [[self-actualization]], [[human experience]], [[coming out]], [[gender]]