>>40674079
This is exactly how it went for me. I'm from the middle east. Growing up, people always "clocked" me as gay and that caused a lot of problems (insults, beatings, sexual advances like groping humping etc)
So I forced myself to learn how to act like a stereotypical MENA macho man, a lot of people could see through it at school but it did reduce harm by a bit and it did help a lot at home but not fully.
The problem is I forgot who I was before 12 year old me realized I need to fake a person they would tolerate. SO now i'm an edgy tranny
But yeah it's definitely not like coming out as gay. However i kinda went through that as well since I'm attracted to men and my parents watched it turn from romantic attraction as a kid to sexual attraction shortly before puberty and afterwards. (They tried to kill me twice but i have good survival skills, they still made my life hell for it for like 12 years but alas I won)