Teenage phase

Some of us can go through a teenage phase before becoming whole transgender people which is something akin to what young women experience before maturing into adulthood. So much is bottled up for so long that letting the girl out can sometimes produce a period of navel-gazing instability.

Stopping the feed and starve cycle certainly helped me tremendously in immersing myself more fully in my identity and also being less self conscious regarding what people think and who might be looking. I could care less.

This is burned off and a stability established which adds so much to our confidence and calm. Emphasis on the latter.