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     This is a question that is heard by every open transgendered person. Most can't give a decent answer. The most common way for many trans people is to say something to the effect of being "trapped in the wrong body." This usually does very little to answer that question. These are two methods that are very good at getting you at least to a basic understanding of how transgender works in the mind. Both of these methods involve asking yourself a lot of questions. So, hopefully you're in the right mindset for it.

Method 1:

What is your favorite color?

If you don't have one, move on to method two. Otherwise keep going.

Now, ask yourself why. Why is that color your favorite color?

Look beyond the simple "Because it's pretty" and the "it's dark and I like dark" or the "because blue is the color of the sky and the sky makes me smile" answers. Ultimately, you could ask the same "Why do you like the sky" type questions anyway.

No, look deeper down. Why do you like that color? What's telling you that you like it? How do you truly know it's your favorite color?

Can you truly answer that question? Or is it something you just....know?

Method 2:

This method is best if you're hungry.

What are you hungry for? craving? What is it you really want to eat right now?

Why?

How do you know?

What's telling you?

Can you answer that?

These are very simple questions. However, they aren't very easily answered. Eventually you will come to the conclusion that you don't know why. You just know. Therein lies your answer. It is the same for transgender. In fact, the same could be applied to sexual orientation. Something is telling you that this is who you are, or this is who you are attracted to. You can't explain it. You can't fight it. You just are. It has been suggested that we each have our own sense of gender inside. However, for the majority of the people on the planet, that sense goes unnoticed. It is the few of us who have a gender that doesn't align with our bodies that discover that sense. We really just know, for some reason, that we are the gender we think we are. Think about that.