By: trans guy

not trying to downplay anything written here, but I used to read studies like this before I transitioned and it freaked me out and made me put off transitioning. I'm now nearing 2 years post medical transition and I can honestly say I have not been discriminated against or faced any injustices for being trans. This is obviously just my experience and I have a lot of privilege unrelated to being trans (I'm white, upper middle class, educated, etc) but there are trans people like me that exist and never face discrimination. In contrast, before I transitioned, when I was visibly queer and gender ambiguous, the amount of discrimination and injustice and outright hatred I experienced from perfect strangers on the street, will haunt me forever. Now that I am viewed as gender normative and heterosexual (just based on my outward appearance) and living with male privilege, I look back on the way I was treated before and it is unbelievably depressing