Do you have to experience a lot dysphoria?

You can still be trans and experience no dysphoria whatsoever. You don't need to experience dysphoria to be trans. You're trans if you feel like a gender that isn't your biological sex.

 

As long as you experience some dysphoria, you're trans.

 

How much dysphoria you experience or whether you experience it at all has no bearing on whether you are trans or not, all you need if is you feel your gender isn't your biological sex.

 

I think what matters the most is what you want. If you feel thrilled at the idea of living your life fully as a guy, then that says something, right? Cis people wouldn't do that - or if they would, it would be a phase for them and they'd get scared off - while trans people would find relief in the continued higher, steady expression of their inner gender.

 

Dysphoria varies from person to person and it can vary in severity. I'll be honest, sometimes I'm really not that dysphoric and it's honestly what probably kept me from even figuring myself out until I was a lot older. What counts is that it exists in some form- you feel more natural identifying as male versus female, etc.

I knew I was "for real" when I looked in the mirror for the first time after getting to present male and I actually felt like I was looking at myself. You don't need to have panic attacks about your body to know- you just need to know who you are and what you want to be.

 

I'm glad! <3