“My body knew, deep down I knew, and something had shifted.”
, details exactly when the lightbulb illuminated—the first time he acknowledged being a trans man “beyond speculation.”. He had simply asked a close friend: “Do you think I’m trans?” And the friend replied: “I could see that…”
Later, Page convened with another friend, Star, at a small house party, where he expressed that he “couldn’t wear feminine clothes anymore” for work because they were so uncomfortable. “I couldn’t look at pictures, because I was never there,” he wrote. “It was making me sick. I didn’t want to be here. I wanted to be lifted out—the gender dysphoria slowly crushing me.”
Then, the question Page had previously asked another friend was directed back at him. “Do you think you’re trans?” Star asked. Page replied: “Yes, well, maybe. I think so. Yeah.”felt “too big,” he wrote, adding: “It had taken a long time to allow any words to come out.” Shortly after having that talk, Page took a self-described U-turn, compartmentalized his gender, fell in love, and got married to“It wasn’t until our relationship was falling apart two years later and my gender dysphoria was so extreme that I sought out [a therapist] in [New York City]. I was ready to talk,” he wrote. He then relinquished the same words he had spoken to Star years prior. There was no going back this time. “My body knew, deep down I knew, and something had shifted,” he wrote.
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