Ok corny self-aggrandizing post incoming. I started transitioning this year. I've known I was trans since 2019 but was too scared to do anything about it (lived in a red state) and have been taking miniscule, tiny, baby steps to get little tastes of validation and living off of those crumbs. This year something switched in my brain and I finally pulled the trigger and started hormones, got a trans-focused therapist, joined a support group, really leaned in. It goes against all of the self-preservation instincts I've developed my whole life, but I feel... great? I felt like time was going in fast-forward for the past several years and now I feel like I have all the time in the world. Anyway, TLDR I guess, finally took the big leap I was terrified to take and made my life way better.