So since there are trans people here, I'll ask a question that has perplexed me for ages.
What is dysphoria? For instance, what does it feel like?
As mentioned, it's rather hard to explain, but it's also highly individual. For me, one part of it is discomfort with my physical self, a strong dislike for my masculine features, things like my facial hair, relatively masculine face, broader shoulders, height, anything really. The severity and therefore what I feel bad about varies, essentially based on how "picky" I am. For example, my height isn't that big of a deal. While I'd certainly be more comfortable being a bit shorter, at 5'8" I'm not
that tall for a woman. My facial hair is pretty bad, I can't go long without thinking about it. My voice is also really awful, I've always hated it and it's just awful. I'm not going into genital dysphoria but that also really sucks.
The second part of it is essentially how society and other people view me. Whenever people call me by female pronouns or other words (e.g. "miss"), it just feels a lot more
right than "sir" and such. It's a hard feeling to describe, but it's as if people looked at you and assumed you were one thing when you're really not. I don't know if there's really another similar way to describe it. It almost feels like I'm being insulted, in a way? I mean there isn't anything wrong with being male or female or whatever, but it just doesn't
feel right.
Oh and re: the twin discussion. They said
gender, not sex. There have certainly been many identical twins where one was trans and the other wasn't. Though there's also a very strong tendency for them both to be identical in that way as well.