>>6756163The general consensus among professionals about transitioning is that dysphoria will never go away unless you transition.
However, the personal consensus of many trans people, who are post-HRT and even post-op, is that dysphoria will never go away even if you transition.
Is there a solution? Yes. Stop wanting to become a woman. That is the root of the problem. It is extremely psychologically distressing to want something you cannot have. This is gender dysphoria. Your only true solution is to not want - and you can do that. That's a much better idea than hormones and surgery.
Let me guess - what is now a large part of your life started out as a seed of doubt. "Hmm, maybe it would be better if I were [gender]. OK, whatever, but am I trans?". The common reply is a bit Kafkaesque - "if you have to ask, the answer is yes."
And then you started reading online trans resources. Joining the communities, making friends, giving more importance to it. They have vicious ways of turning depressed young men and women into "diverse" freak shows. The idea is simple: "The grass is greener on the other side, dysphoria is the source of all your problems, and transition is your solution."
Trust me, I thought I was MTF when I was 14, and "came out" when I was 17. I took HRT, and after a lot of independent thought, I quit before any irreversible changes happened - ignoring the advice of my psychiatrist, online friends, and even the currently accepted medical science, and just entirely ignored everything in my life that had to to with "transgender". Instead, I just worked on plain old self improvement, and took all the normie advice to "get your act together".
I am now a functional adult male and I'm happy, all sorted out, with a job, and I have great self esteem. No thoughts of dysphoria. I'm still glad I didn't take that path. It sounds corny, since it's been said so many times before by people that know nothing about it, but it's just a phase. You'll get through it.
