can cisgender people get gender dysphoria too?I am a cisgender straight male but and i feel extremely dysphoric about some of my very feminine features. i am short, have a very small frame, skinny, have wide hips compared to my shoulders, have some gyno, can't grow a full beard, i have a very weak jawline and soft face, when i shave i look like i am 14 (i am 25), my hands are very small.i feel fine most of the time, but whenever i stand next to another guy who is larger and more masculine than me i feel extremely dysphoric about my body. i can't stop comparing myself to him and feel bad about how small i am compared to him. how small my hands, head, jaw, overall body is compared to him. how soft my voice is compared to him. how timid and feminine I am to him.i am generally treated well by everyone. so i have never gotten bullied by anyone for my body. but i can still feel that good treatment doesn't come from respect and treating me as an equal. people are nice to me for the same reason they treat a pet or kid well. because i look soft, timid, vulnerable and fragile. which makes me feel even worse.maybe psychologist would classify this more as body dysmorphia and not gender dysphoria. but for me it's very gendered. i don't hate how my nose looks or how skinny/fat i am etc... i only feel it with sexually dimorphic features.
>>43199009I understand this. I sometimes kinda get it where I feel like I should be a guy instead of a tranny and felt this way before transitioning where I wasn't quite a real man or whatever. Sometimes it's just like this. Maybe you might feel better leaning into it? It's weird.
>>43199009pooner to male cistranny
>>43199009>I am a cisgender straight malegr8 b8 m8 r8 8/8
>>43199009>can cisgender people get gender dysphoria too?"penis envy"- Freud
>>43199030i am pretty sure i am not trans. i would rope if i looked any more feminine than i am right now.>>43199054don't know what you mean.i am not familiar with /lgbt/>>43199081i think that's irrelevant to the experience i am talking about.
>>43199183why are you on /lgbt/ then?
>>43199208just thought this would be the right board to discuss the topic of gender dysphoria.
>>43199183I don't mean transitioning. Leaning into femininity in other ways may help you come to better appreciate it (or appreciate your more masculine traits).
>>43199009I was like you, ended up liking my feminine features more in the end
>>43199009I think it's kinda "normal" to feel that way since we taught boys that a man should be big and strong. So if you are the literal opposite of this image, you can only feel that way. But that's okay, even if it's easier to say, you should accept the way you look.
>>43199284>>43199304>>43199391i know you are probably right. that's the only way to cope.but god damn, it's easier said than done
>>43199009gender dysphoria is literally defined as wanting the characteristics of the opposite sex and not wanting the characteristics of your birth sexif you're a man and you're unhappy about being short, weak, or otherwise feminine, that's not gender dysphoria it's just normal insecurities.
>>43199546You will masculinize over time, probably won't turn you into a Gigachad (unless you work really hard for that), moreso a generic middle aged manYour reaction to its first signs will tell you the most about yourself, if it's something you're fine with or something you'd rather avoid
>>43199546It's not cope. It's self discovery. You lean into it to learn more and figure things out rather than to pretend.
>>43199009absolutely, you are experiencing discomfort with many of the same features a trans man would. dysphoria isn't exclusive to trannies, it's just that in trannies the conditions are most ripe for it (due to opposing physical sex and neurosex).
