No matter your age

Living life as a female continues to be fulfilling. One becomes accustomed to it as things improve over time and, as you wash away all impediments to being fully yourself, all your objections increasingly fall by the wayside. Resistance finally becomes futile especially since you feel more relaxed than you have ever been.

I have preferred coming to identity via resistance because the other way would have had me think I was deluding myself. To fully embrace myself too early could have meant skipping key steps of introspection which in retrospect turned out to be mandatory for a person born in the early 60's.

Today young people have much less stigma and baggage to deal with but are potentially more prone to leap before reflecting which has helped feed the current detransition phenomenon. I am now more certain than ever that coming to a realization of who one is should be done with great care and constant second guessing no matter your age.

Less is more and you stop once at your own baseline.