>>40630877
Don't really want to engage in a suffering competition, but it is so weird to me that you think repressing means I was happy being seen as a man or that I never did anything to alleviate my dysphoria.
When I was 17 I got the chance to transition, with the condition to move out of my house and live with a rich man and marry him, I didn't know him so I asked him for more time, the first thing I noticed is that he was very promiscuous and he was expecting me to just accept him and live as one of his many partners, I didn't like that at all but I continued talking to him, the idea was growing on me while I met someone else, she knew I was trying to transition but couldn't and started "helping" me dress up while I got the courage, this was almost 20 years ago so the decision wasn't as easy as these past years, I would do it almost every day and even stayed in her apartment for up to one week at a time dressed up, we started attending gay bars and it all seemed great, the guy was growing increasingly jealous, for some reason he couldn't accept that I had a friend, sadly she made a huge mistake, she tried to solve it but made all things worse, he had connections and asked him to help me, begged him, he gave me a place to go, a name to ask and paid most of it, I was extremely thankful, even if I wasn't ready yet I was willing to take his offer, well he didn't like what I did, I don't know if it hurt him or he was tired of waiting but he simply said goodbye and deleted all his accounts even closed his own forum, I tried to get back to him for years but I couldn't find him anywhere, from 19 until I was 25 I felt like I had no reason to live, to do anything, my friend on the other hand was extremely thankful so at some point when I was 22 she asked me to live with her and live en femme full time, then she got a job somewhere else when I turned 23, she was still sending me money, buying me clothes, paid the rent and often visited me, she basically kept me alive.