I respectfully disagree.

Some of us only know we're trans later in life. We might not have had the language to voice that even to ourselves...or was way too busy in survival mode / enduring abuse for a very long time to even begin to consider gender.

A good portion of my trans acquaintances and friends, and myself are like that. It's only recently that we can look back, because so much of our sense of self was non-existent or buried.

Gender psychiatrists in my part of the world often ask about abuse histories and other stuff just to rule out "identity confusion". Not that having an abuse history means people aren't trans, but we have to be able to articulate how we realised later in life, and the various signs as we grew up, and so on.

Of course, there's folks who know from a young age though.



or even known