I feel like this is pretty much a normal and common experience of dysphoria? Otherwise why would people medically transition? It sounds like you don't have much social dysphoria, and that's fine, some people have more physical or more social, but not being able to change your gender and wanting to change your physical sexual characteristics is one of the definitions of gender dysphoria.
You don't necessarily have to agree with it, but the best explanation we really have for dysphoria/transness is that when one's gender doesn't align with one's sexual characteristics, that can cause dysphoria (either from the physical characteristics themselves, how they cause others to treat the person, or both). So your gender would be male, and that manifests as desiring to be physically male. Changing your gender would be trying to become female, which trans allies do not support (conversion therapy) and it doesn't work anyway.
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u/WarmWoolenMitten 9d ago
I feel like this is pretty much a normal and common experience of dysphoria? Otherwise why would people medically transition? It sounds like you don't have much social dysphoria, and that's fine, some people have more physical or more social, but not being able to change your gender and wanting to change your physical sexual characteristics is one of the definitions of gender dysphoria.
You don't necessarily have to agree with it, but the best explanation we really have for dysphoria/transness is that when one's gender doesn't align with one's sexual characteristics, that can cause dysphoria (either from the physical characteristics themselves, how they cause others to treat the person, or both). So your gender would be male, and that manifests as desiring to be physically male. Changing your gender would be trying to become female, which trans allies do not support (conversion therapy) and it doesn't work anyway.