Shout out to trans people who don't want to be exactly like their cis counterparts.
Shout out to trans people who don't have cis counterparts.
Shout out to multigender trans people who still identify with their original assigned gender alongside other genders.
Shout out to intersex people who identify as trans despite their gender lining up with the gender they were originally assigned at birth due to their bodies feeling incongruous with their gender identity or to being reassigned a different gender later in their childhood/life.
None of this makes any of you less trans. Your gender experience is yours to define and if you say you're trans, you are trans. It's okay and, in fact, pretty normal to have a complicated relationship with gender.
There is no meaningful way to "fake" being trans. Anyone telling you that you aren't a "real" trans person isn't someone you need to take seriously. People who gatekeep and enforce strict gender rules are not the arbiters on who gets to be trans or not. Most of the time, they're just miserable and want you to be miserable with them. You don't have to prove anything to them or anyone else. You only have to find peace and understanding for yourself.
