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 @420f26f4 what hope do you have? you are gonna find out 🥰. The worst and best part of transitioning is that we all do it anyway. Cause nobody ALWAYS feels like it’s working but we all do it anyway. in time, hopefully, those negative feelings are less frequent. To me, getting hot isn’t the goal, being myself is. So when I see a hot lady feel bad, that has nothing to do with my journey to be me. I can relate to them but I try not to see them as proof of concept. They don’t owe me happiness for me to have faith in myself.

A note: given that you have some truly gorgeous trans women reading this, I’m not sure what those hypothetical women are supposed to feel about your post. People feel what they feel. It’s hard enough to let yourself feel something without feeling responsible for how that makes someone else feel. 
 @420f26f4 but that works both ways, right? You can feel whatever you want here. But I just wanna check in cause I wanna avoid flattening people out to “hot = success = always happy” 
 Sometimes it bums me out when I see truly gorgeous trans women having massive self-confidence iss... 
 @420f26f4 what hope do you have? you are gonna find out 🥰. The worst and best part of transitioning is that we all do it anyway. Cause nobody ALWAYS feels like it’s working but we all do it anyway. in time, hopefully, those negative feelings are less frequent. To me, getting hot isn’t the goal, being myself is. So when I see a hot lady feel bad, that has nothing to do with my journey to be me. I can relate to them but I try not to see them as proof of concept. They don’t owe me happiness for me to have faith in myself.

A note: given that you have some truly gorgeous trans women reading this, I’m not sure what those hypothetical women are supposed to feel about your post. People feel what they feel. It’s hard enough to let yourself feel something without feeling responsible for how that makes someone else feel.