I'm reading through the whole thread now and I just want to archive some videos that were posted in page 5 that were seemingly glossed over.
"Kayden Female To Male FTM Transition Timeline"-- Posted Feb 9, 2014
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Proof that testosterone makes you age like shit.
"Sexuality: From dating women to men"-- Posted Dec 17, 2015
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Noteworthy points:
-She has always been attracted to men, but felt uncomfortable dating them and being "seen as female". She exclusively dated women for 10 years until she came out as trans.
-She realised she was a lesbian when she was 14 when another female student asked her if she was gay, when Kayden said no, the girl said "well, you should be".
"Something clicked" "The way she addressed me [...]
it made me feel masculine. It made me feel good."
-She would always dress very masculine. Had to work and get her own money to buy men's clothes because her mother refused to buy her masculine clothing.
-She says that during this woman dating period she "wasn't faithful". I'm not sure if she means if she cheated a lot of it she means that she wasn't faithful to the idea of dating women.
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! She says the lesbian community is "Kind of like a cult. It's like... you're there, and you feel a sense of belonging and this sense of... you know, community that you can get very very comfortable in, and that is what happened to me". Hehe.
-Goes from dating feminine women to more masculine women, because really she just wanted to date men. She reiterates the point about her always being attracted to men and explains that she's always been attracted to gay men, but knew that it wasn't a possibility as a woman. Hm.
-"So I was kind of settling. Yes ex-girlfriends, I was settling". I don't know what she means by this.
-"When you first start transitioning, you usually have a few people that you look up to or that are kind of like mentoring you".
-Dated women for a little bit after trooning out because her mentors said that she will not be accepted as a man if she dated men. She was "conditioned over [...] this decade to be ashamed that I was attrracted to men" I'm guessing by the lesbian community?
-Dated other Aidens until moving to Philadelphia and she felt like she could finally live her Authentic Truthᵗᵐ and date true and honest gay men.
-"It has nothing to do with me taking testosterone".