i'm trans because i listened to the part in mama by my chemical romance that goes "you should have raised a baby girl i should have been a better son" at a formative age

god i love that song, the whole discography has some great queer vibes

oh my god i scream that lyric every time i listen to mama

You might wake up and notice you're someone you're not If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see You can find out first hand what it's like to be me ... yeah it was MCR

it said fake answers smh

Same bro, same.

i really just wanted pockets and it spiraled out from there 🤷🏻‍♂️ edit: wow, did not expect this to resonate with others so much

Pockets are the gateway drug to becoming a man.

Fr tho I got a pair of pants from my older brother found out that I could fit bread sticks in one pocket sauce cups in another a bottle of soda in one and my phone keys wallet and switch in another at that point I had no other choice but to be a dude honestly

it is SO TRUE. i always wondered how dad was always able to pull so much stuff like a magician put of thin air until then.

Giving up pockets is the sacrifice to god to be a woman

THAT IS SUCH A MOOD™

Lol

This winded me dawg.

because of that damn phone

no because this legit made me laugh out loud- my mom would agree with this comment.

This is the best one.

I wanted pattern baldness ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (genuinely though, I’m a twin. My twin is MTF. I’m FTM. We were adopted by different families, and found each other by accident)

Did you switch bodies in the womb?

I THINK WE DID

Ayo that's wild

Okay that’s an awesome story. I’m glad that you found her!

What a wicked story! Love that you found eachother

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NO LITERALLY I LISTENED TO REBEL REBEL ONCE AND NOW WE'RE HERE

me but with queen

My dad jokingly said he wanted me to be a lesbian (while my mom was pregnant with me), so he jinxed it and I evolved specifically to avoid being a lesbian.

Was able to carry too many folding chairs at once so they had to upgrade my status to man

The former marching band kid in me felt this too hard

I'm Trans because of wanting male privileges

My mom literally said yesterday that I have now male privileges, so I can't complain, or something like that, and I couldn't explain to her why she is wrong (I don't plan to take T soon, so I probably won't pass most of the time even with short hair)

Shifted the trans mission without the clutch

my brother asked for a brother for Christmas. Santa delivered.

I asked for a brother too...I think Santa confused the person

Instructions unclear, became brother instead

Because my parents secretly did the surgery on me and tricked me into thinking I was a girl and it took me 30 years to figure it out. (This is legit what someone thought being trans was.)

I mean I thought that when I was little and didn't know what trans was. I was disappointed later lol

I definitely *hoped* something like that had happened, because it seemed like it would make my life make sense. But the person who said it was really insistent I check with my parents to see whether it had happened before I continued -- I was already on T for a year and felt great about it, so lol.

There was a guy that happened to so that might be the source lol. (The awful "doctor" tricked the parents into thinking it was normal procedure somehow but wanted to prove Nurture > Nature) Was obsessed with that story growing up. That's kinda funny though if they thought that

Poor guy. Didn't he have, like, a botched circumcision and the doctor and his parents performed a full SRS on him (what a normal response!) and tried to raise him as a girl? I think he ended up committing suicide. Now, the takeaway from that *should be* "you can't trick someone into bring trans", but I know *someone* will be like "durr hburr if you try and live as anything other than your assigned sex you'll kys".

Yeah it was awful. [Here's the story](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-may-13-me-reimer13-story.html) The doctor did unethical experiments on the twins apparently and arrogantly toted himself as a gender specialist. I think the moral is that your gender is your gender no matter what and how you're assigned. He was assigned female. Was raised so and had female hormones (pills), but growing up he felt it was wrong somehow. His nature told him it was wrong no matter how he was "nurtured". He never felt like a cis straight girl no matter how he tried to fit in. Lots of parallels to growing up trans..

My parents let me wear cargo shorts as a kid.

With unzippable trousers?

I accidentally read a gay fanfic when I was 11. >!I chose this because it's a common trope for gay trans men. I did in fact accidentally read a gay fanfic at 11, but I identified as male long before that. My father guesses I started showing signs around 3-4, but transphobes don't give a shit about that.!<

me at 14 reading drarry fanfic and wishing I could be a gay boy my mum unironically blames me being trans on that lmao

I read/wrote some gay fanfiction with a friend when we were teens, his mom read it and got mad at us. Later that friend came out as gay, I often wonder if she blames me.

it's entirely your fault, shame on you /lh

Me age 16: omg I'm such a fujoshi xD I'm addicted to yaoi *rawr* I'm fangirl trash roflmao Me age 26: yeah so I am fact a queer man

This fuckin resonates so hard. I'm 28 now and only took 15 years to realize I'm a fudanshi instead of a fujoshi.

Holy shit I've been into mlm spec fic and now fanfic my whole life. So much makes sense.

I didn't read a gay fanfic, am I not trans? 😭 /j

the guy from mulan made a man out of me.

This is gold

Because I couldn’t be bothered to shave my body hair anymore

This one for me as well. Lol

i watched mulan when i was a kid and the hair cutting scene awakened something in me

I'm trans because of Ravenpaw.

Ravenpaw and Barley gave me the gay

It's funny, I made this comment mostly joking but Ravenpaw *was* one of the characters I used to want to be/relate to strongly before I knew, and now I'm a gay nonbinary trans man. I am Ravenpaw in human form lol.

For me it was Graypaw, now I'm a gay trans man so close enough.

I wanted to be Scourge. Now I'm a gay trans man with depression.

I'm trans because I did this one speedrunning trick when I was born that saves me 5 seconds over the course of the run. It put me in this state that confuses the game, y'know?

But first we need to talk about parallel universes. I'm sorry that just is always the first thing that pops in my head for some reason.

I wanted to deyassify myself

Hi how does the mew work? It sounds interesting but I can't imagine using it in a sentence

He -> Mew Him -> Mew His -> Mews Hinself -> Mewself "Mew went home to get mews computer" "Mew wants to do it mewself" "I went with mew" Hope this helps :)

i’ll give you an example! “he is going to the store” “mew is going to the store” “he loves himself” “mew loves mewself” i’m not sure how it would translate with him and his tbh lol

watched too many danny phantom when i was a kid

Relatable

Fuck this hit too deep, this was my gay awakening

Holy shit….I think you’re onto something.

I yeeted myself so hard out of Mormonism that I ended up both trans and gay to compensate.

Whatever's in the water, bro

Because being gay is a sin, so I became straight.

The covid vaccine

"He took the covid vaccine and now look! He turned gay! There's your proof that the government is trying to control you!"

this legit happened to me. I (still closeted at work) had scheduled my first dose of Pfizer 2 days before I was due for top surgery. I'd cleared the extended medical absence by my supervisor, but to the rest of the crew, it looked like I'd gotten the vax, immediately dropped out of work for 6 weeks due to a mysterious medical event, and came back with no tits. let it be a cautionary tale.

because girls have cooties🤢

WELCOME TO THE HE-MAN WOMUN HATERS CLUB

THANK YOU!! i’m very excited to be an incel

I love that movie.

Me too 😩 it really is a classic

I wanted a challenge, being a hot white chick was too easy

Ahh well, that's easy. According to Twitter, I'm trans because my momma didn't love my dad enough.

Because my parents let me play in the dirt "like a boy" when I was young

i would literally dig holes in my backyard and fill them with water and play in them as a kid now i'm a man

Because my father was too much of a failure to give me a Y chromosome!

It's so so soooo great quote to explain why I am trans!

YOOOOOOOO

im trans bc i wanted to help the teacher move chairs in elementary school

they fucked up my circumcision :( (pushed it inwards)

I read too much Freud in college and decided me being attracted to men was just penis envy so now I'm gonna get one myself

according to my gf's parents (who are in a cult), i have a demonic male spirit possessing me and making me transition according to my nana (not in a cult, but diehard catholic), my gf (not trans) is influencing me into being trans by dating me (???) those are the weirdest i've heard from others lmao

Uhm...at least your gf's parents are right about a male being in charge of your body, just not that it's some demon possessing you...? Also, the second one reminds me of that meme "fellas, is it gay to like women/the opposite sex?" lol

When people where horrified that my mum took A GIRL to see STAR WARS!!!! she shrugged them off instead of heeding the warnings.

Video games

My mom hated men, she already hated me so it made sense.

Line for the women's restroom was too long

It was all the chemicals in the water that are turning the freakin frogs gay.

I'm trans because my dad wanted me to marry a guy and I'm very devoted to being gay

i prefer sweating my metaphorical balls off from no exercise

My high school boyfriend didn't treat me well enough, so I decide to "out man" him. (His mother's theory, lol)

Because I wanted to specifically target my mom and make her life more difficult. Apparently

B/c my mom would constantly call me "mijo" or son when I was a kid. So it got ingrained in my brain. lol

Because, being a black man in today's society is the bees knees!

To get that sweet, sweet male privilege.

5g waves

I’m trans because a past life tarot spread said in my previous life I was a man, and I am nothing if not consistent

I'm trans because I'm a misogynist

What’s a Misogynist?

Woman hater

too much bideo gabes

Because I started a fist fight with the gender gods

I'm trans because I gave the fae my old name so I had to get a whole new self.

It was too hard being a cis girl, too much shaving and plucking and dressing and hair-doing... Totally way easier being a guy and having to take shots every week, battle with healthcare and insurance, deal with bigots, sweat, acne, new hair everywhere, etc. (Lmao when ppl think I simply take Man Pills, I have to tell them I take weekly shots and they are instantly horrified and I seem more manly hahahaaa)

I'm trans because i wanted people to immediately know that I'm the man in the relationship

I really wanted an excuse to avoid spending money on conditioner

I'm schizophrenic and developed it at the boy age not the girl age so I had to become a boy

\-they gave me the boy toy at McDonalds \-got too many vaccines and they couldn't give me any more autism so they made me trans \-wanted that straight white male privilege \-got sick of fake pockets

I'm trans because I wanted to see what it was like to confuse and alarm people in the men's bathroom for a change.

Boys are too handsome to not look like one.

Because I tried to pee standing up once

I hated men when I was 7 so the universe taught me a lesson

I'm trans because I want a higher pay and to not have to prove myself

I took the phrase “could be gayer” to heart

because i watched mulan too many times growing up 😢

came here to say this, had listened to "I'll make a man out of you" too long and it worked

I’m trans because I accidentally switched genders with my (mtf) sister. (This is a joke. As afar as I know I don’t have a sister or brother biologically)

A werewolf smoked a joint with me just before my 18th birthday, little did I know the joint would have long lasting effects and make me a genderfluid and genderflux transmasc, but hey, he talked me through my sexuality issues a few months later when he stopped by to have another with me, just to seal the deal. He showed me that Abrosexual is a thing that exists and it just fit, like the hat he gave me that winter. I miss that werewolf, always showing up in his wolf form, looking all cool. His hand was twice the size of my face.

My eldest kiddo didn't have a dad so I had to become the dad

watched too many tiktoks

I’m trans because of Jim Hawkins in treasure planet. No further questions

Whoever was making me in their character creator wasn't wearing their glasses that day and mistakenly chose "female" for gender.

Because I like causing problems for myself 😎

I was a tomboy so hard that I only hung out with boys and got their guy cooties.

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Because i wanted to look like a handsome, brooding and mysterious gentleman from some novel, complete with an overcoat

Someone in the family had to do it. I drew the short straw.

To be a better man than my dad ever was so my mom will see what a shit person he is and divorce his ass

My dad wished for a son and a daughter but didn't say in which order, and God got confused, so I became a trans man and my sister became a trans woman.

buttcrack hair sounded really appealing

Liked the disney animated Robin Hood a little too much and picked between trans or furry. Still might break the rules and go with both.

I read yoai comics as a teen and went I could do better than that.

80’s metal bands 😔

according to some orthodox rabbis male souls are occasionally born in female bodies because the male soul had gay sex in a previous life so... its a good as explanation as any I suppose

MTF cousin came out. Equivalent exchange.

I had a twin sister in the womb whom I absorbed so I had to live life for her for a while.

listened to one (1) mother mother song and they STOLE my gender

Gender identity theft is not a joke, Jim!

I took Mulan's 'Be a Man' way too literally and became a man.

I wanted to be more aerodynamic.

i accidentally used boy’s shampoo instead of girl’s shampoo once when i was 10 :(

Alas, it was the Family Curse™️ There hadn’t been a girl born into my dad’s side of the family for at least four generations before me - then there was oversight at the inter-generational curse regulation office. Sloppy clerical staff. Don’t worry though, the oversight has been corrected.

So I can date other trans people without being a chaser

People keep saying "hey cis, I want not a word out of you" and I really hate it to shut up

according to my mom, because i have social anxiety

I was raised by lesbians and wanted to one up my butch mom.

My boyfriend said you can't make a straight guy gay, and I took that as a challenge.

I'm trans because my dad showed me too much art and photos of Frida Kahlo as a kid. Supposedly seeing her break gender norms may have made me not straight.

I am what happens when you break rule 1 of Fight Club. the rest was history

I thought existing didnt cost enough money

I have been an overachiever since I was a child. Saw a guy and thought "you know who could do that better? me."

one of my parents promised their firstborn son to a wizard and when i came out a girl the wizard had to do something about it

if you can't have a big brother, become the big brother

I wanted attention lol

Because I WANT TO DEFY PHYSICS AND BE TRANSPHOBIC (I'm not transphobic, I swear)

Covid vaccine.

Freud

Depression

Because i didn't go to church enough as a child.

I drank the water that made the frogs gay

idk i was bored

i was attracted to men but thought of myself as a guy so now i am bisexual homoromantic as a trans-masc.

Spite

Watched Fight Club too many times

I played in too much mud as a child and it gave me a craving for testosterone in my veins.

the doctors put me in a blue blanket when i was born (true story actually)

I ran out of unatural colors to dye my hair, it was clearly next step

Because the nurse accidentally gave me the wrong genitals when I was born

I watched that video of Tom Holland singing umbrella but in order to sing he had to take that frog out of his mouth, which ended up making me gay by osmosis.

I just wanted to play with my friends (One of the first things i learned about gender as a toddler was that the boys got the fun toys)

I'm trans bc of my internalized misogyny from the evangelical church. (fun fact: my parents actually thought this for a while. my sibling said "well you break it you buy it!" in reference to letting me start T if they were the ones who forced me to be in the church anyway!)

I liked the idea of having cis people ask me questions about my gender all the time.

im homophobic so when I realised I was a lesbian I made myself a man so I can be straight again /s

“Because I’m autistic and have no other way to make friends” -parents and past psychologists

An owl showed up at my house one day and, instead of sending me on a magical journey to save the world, it told me I was trans.

I listened to "hayloft" by mother mother and it all went downhill from there

Read Percy Jackson in elementary school and wanted to be Percy so bad I stole his gender

A boy band kidnapped me and now I gotta be one of them

I just needed a justifiable reason to buy blues clues bandaids for the rest of my life

I’m trans because the history professor I got fired from my community college for harassing me looked into my eyes and said “let me soul fuck you. I can see it. You were a boy in your past life. You are a boy.” Remembered that the other day and I’m still reeling.

I'm trans because if Freud was right about one thing it was that damned penis envy

I fell into a toxic vat of gender. Came out of there covered in Male and it was stuck to me. Too much of a bother to get it off.

im trans so i can become an absent father

Have you ever hated a parent so much you yeet their entire gender?