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Just wanted to pop in here and say: no one is being told they have to go through surgery and hormone replacements to be who they are. In fact, things are changing in the opposite direction. There used to be laws requiring physical surgeries to be able to legally change one's gender but those have mostly been removed.
The options are there and are becoming more widely available and easier to access for those who want them. They are major life choices that aren't taken lightly. I can tell you right now, if you weren't trans then, you wouldn't be now either. You would be suffering and begging for treatment, not stumbling into it out of mere curiousity.
It's not curiosity. I never felt like my gender. I've always been a fish out of water, and been extremely uncomfortable in my body. The way trans people describe feeling is how I've felt for the majority of my life.
But in the years since, I've come to terms with who I am and what my body is. I no longer feel the need to make it be anything other than what it is.