I’m a trans man and I only had my dad while growing up. Nearly every adult I’d get to know was a woman whether it be family members or teachers or doctors. My dad didn’t teach me or talk to me about much stuff even in regards to being a daughter let alone things that dads are typically supposed to teach sons. I never had any other men who could fulfill that role.

I realized I see life through a woman’s lense because that’s who I grew up around and the perspective I heard. I could understand domestic abuse on women better than on a man from a young age because of hearing my aunts and grandmothers talk about it. I understand lingo that women use that most men wouldn’t. It feels foreign to see something center around men whether in advertising, group meets, support groups, activities, etc. but this doesn’t mean I’m not a man. I can just more easily consider the perspective of a woman and sympathize with it better than a man’s outside of my own.

Anyone else like this? Whether ftm or mtf?