Want to know some of the weird and wrong things you believed back then. I used to believe a lot of dumb things, some of them were dumb in a funny way, others in a hurtful right wing way, but many of those things were wrong and pretty dumb looking back.
The main misconception that stopped my egg cracking was that trans people “always knew” they had the wrong body, whereas I, clearly male (look, I’ve got a dick and everything) merely wanted really badly to be a girl. Totally different, ah well.
Also I was really strongly opposed to cosmetic stuff: surgeries, tattoos, piercings etc. Like, easily deal-breaker level. I always thought it was kind of a weird hangup and I should talk to someone about it, but I’d get panic attacks whenever I thought too hard about it so kind of let it be. Turns out the reason I was so obsessed with body modification was because I wanted to change mine and I was jealous of anyone else who could.
And just the general misogyny that comes from growing up in an almost exclusively male environment.
I had that too, I also just didn’t know just how badly I wanted to be a girl until I met a really good friend who I learned was trans (and was also in the right state of mind not to immediately push her away), questioned my own gender, then experimented with she/her pronouns on myself and learned yup totally want to be a girl, really badly too. I also doubted myself a bit since I’d heard that you need dysphoria, but that didn’t last long because I realized my chest dysphoria very soon after that.