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Nono, I don't mean, trans men are like me because they were 'raised as a girl'. That's just another version of gender essentialism, substituting 'socialization' for 'chromosomes'. I mean, trans men of around my age and similar-ish cultural backgrounds have something in common with me, because they grew up in a world where there were only one and a half genders: normal person, and girl. And you only get to be a normal person if you're a totally straight, masculine, boy / young man, and if you're a totally straight, feminine girl, that's ok but you have to accept that normal people get priority over you. And if you're not either of those things, you have no identity and no aspirations, but a lot of fear that at any time the normal people could turn on you. Being a trans man isn't at all identical to being a cis, bi woman, and clearly not all trans men have the same experience and not all bi women have the same experience. The thing we might have in common is not 'raised as a girl' but spending our childhood in that void that didn't have a name where we were supposed to be girls and didn't live up to the standards. And of course not universally, everybody's experience is unique as you say some wouldn't find this relatable at all.

I really really hope things are entirely different for your daughter! I don't think anyone my age (46) transitioned at 6. They might have known internally that their assigned gender was wrong by that age, but it was very unlikely they'd have accepting parents, let alone schools, communities, any sort of option for social transition as children. I could be wrong about that, it is possible that some people were accepted as their true gender from a really young age, but they wouldn't be in the same situation as the writers linked in this post who changed their gender presentation and how they described themselves as adults.