Born That Way?

i am very much the same as you except that i had girly habits for as long as i can remember, but like you i only really questioned in mid teens however it was due to me being made to realize i was living a lie when my friend picked up on me being more girl than boy and eventually broke down my mask and made me realize who i am.

but as far as i can tell yeah you should be fine but i would say give this plenty of thinking and some time before making irreversible choice.

EDIT: ah one last thing; there are a lot of people who come one to this sight looking for guidance that have the same circumstances, just look for threads that talk of confusion and questioning in the title.

 

Personally I do believe I was born like this. My parents never restricted me with gender roles, so I was allowed to play with and dress how I liked. I did have some girly toys but overall I leaned toward male with both my toys and my clothes. But I don't think stuff like that determines how you identify, it's just gender roles. I can remember feeling like a boy even when I was a child though.

 

For me it is not how I look as I look out of my eyes through the day, I just have always been a female. My parents explained to me I was not like my mother but like father in body when I was about five as I had never seen a undressed person. It did no good as I was really a girl then and became the woman I am now no matter what I look like! I just am me "June" and never have been John. It seems that women judge me as gay male, while men see a woman more than not. My theory is we project from the inside who we are! You cant change the gender of your spirit... June

 

I didn't display any signs of being trans at all when I was young. Even in my teens really, I always thought I wanted to be a girl but it just felt like it is what it is so whatever. To be really honest I eventually started watching porn with trans people in it, which is what made me realize I could actually be a girl. I know it's kind of a weird way to realize, I never really explored anything at all until then. After that I learned of the term transgender and what not and realized that's me. I explored with cross dressing a bit in private which helped me a lot. I know when I was young I was jealous of the girls. I always wanted to sit with them at lunch and just be friends but in grade 6 generally the boys and girls don't mingle. So I always knew something was weird. It just took a long time and lots of searching to find what it was though.

I really don't know if I was born like this or I slowly just kind of felt like being a woman would make me feel more comfortable, but here I am now and I know it was the right choice, even if the path to where I am now wasn't a stereotypical type of trans story.

 

I didn't look or act like a boy, but I've always felt like a boy. Even before I was aware. I would look up to boys and secretly want to be like them.

I was afraid to admit it to myself, then afraid to admit it to others, so I tried everything I could to look and seem like a girl. But I wasn't.

Only last year did I start presenting as I want, then subsequently came out. Mostly because I don't give a shut what others think anymore.

 

I didn't show any signs as a child, but knowing my personality, I wouldn't expect myself to. I was very shy and aimed to please. I did what was expected of me. I was expected to be a girl, so I did it. I don't remember my feelings as a child, but I know that if I had any boy-ish feelings, I wouldn't have acted on them.

All I know is that the second I was given opportunities to take on a more masculine role in a socially acceptable way, I took them. When I realized I liked girls, I immediately decided that I never wanted to carry a child (I had never considered it before, but as soon as I realized I would have a possible future wife who could do it instead, I didn't want to) and that I wanted to be the "guy" in a lesbian relationship. As it turns out, I just wanted to be the guy in an straight relationship

Basically, I'll never know if I was "born this way", but I know I'm trans now.

 

I don't know.

Maybe I was always like this and just couldn't figure it out. Or maybe not. I don't remember any real dysphoria until I was around puberty. When I was young I never felt like "I'm really a boy" but I never felt like "I'm a girl" either. I was just a kid, I did girly things, and I did boyish things.

 

There was some stuff in my early childhood that made me feel happier thinking of myself as a girl but it's hard to honestly call it "formative" or that "the writing was on the wall all along" in my case because I didn't actively present myself as female in any way until I started doing it online around 8th-9th grade. I did that pretty consistently up through my high school career without questioning why I did it. By the time I hit college my envy for body-swapping with a girl was real. So for me it was a process and it got stronger with time.

I don't know if I was born this way. Maybe the "need to think of myself as female" was there from the start but just needed time to develop. Puberty was probably what kicked off my consistent attempts to escape "being male," since I didn't take too kindly to the secondary sexual characteristics I was developing. Could be that's when my mind started rebelling and looking for outlets to "be female."

 

The evidence suggests that a predisposition to developing a certain gender is determined during prenatal brain development. The areas of the brain most closely associated with gender are jam packed with sex-hormone receptors so it's possible that this part of the brain is only fully activated after puberty, which would explain why children sometimes change their gender, but adults don't.

One thing is certain and thats gender is a rigid biological phenomenon and not a choice. Personally if I could press a button and become cis I would.