Do you believe you have to have dysphoria to be trans?

ksureme:

teakip:

Either some amount of gender OR body dysphoria yes, but the intensity absolutely varies from person to person

Personal belief: You need to at least feel out of place. Not to the degree of crying yourself to sleep at night because your body is not the way you wish it were (gender wise), but enough to think “I don’t feel connected to my body. I do not feel much like a [assigned sex].”

I feel like saying “you need to have <i>dysphoria</i>” makes people panic because they may take that to the extreme and not the minimal, you know?

You know yourself better than anyone else, and if you feel like you’re not in the right body, or feel out of place because of your gender, just know that reguardless of the people who will disagree, there will be a plethora of people to support you. You just have to sift through the rocks before you can find the gems.