Step 1. Find yourself trapped in a woman's body
Step 2. Spend years and thousands in counselling, paying an educated quack to try to figure out what's wrong with you - when you already know.
Step 3. Get diagnosed with a "mental illness"
Step 4. Live as your true self while still wearing the woman's body, strapping your chest down and fighting the people who tell you that you can't use the men's washroom, shop in the men's department, even though you have been living as one.
Step 5. Begin taking weekly shots, suffering not only the indignity of having to "shoot up" every week, but the ache of reforming bones, the looks as the timbre of your voice changes, cracking and squeaking, skin covered in acne, though you're well past puberty.
Step 6. Wait a year until the shots become "dangerous to your health" so that they will perform the surgery to remove your reproductive organs, freeing you from the monthly reminder of your birth that may not have stopped with the shots.
Step 7. Scrimp and save, though it's harder for you to get a job these days, so that you can afford to finally remove that bind and have the deadly lumps removed. Hope that your skin is versitile and the scars that might betray you heal well.
Step 8. Spend months and money arguing with the government so that you can legally be the man you know you were born to be, officially removing the letter "F" from your legal documents and changing your name to that perfect one, the one you chose with love and care to be your own.
Step 9. Live.
There is a reason transmen are better men. If biological men had to fight this much, they'd be better men too.
Love and Kisses,
Andro Angel
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