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A friend of mine who just started her transition this week asked me yesterday if I ever got turned on by seeing myself. I knew immediately what she was actually asking, so this is a PSA for all those trans femmes out there feeling invalidated by their own bodies.

Im gonna be blunt: Your gender is not invalid because you get an erection when seeing yourself dressed as feminine. We’ve all gotten it. It doesn’t mean you’re fetishizing. It doesn’t mean you’re not actually trans.

All it means is that you feel good about how you look.

Gender Euphoria is sexy. Being comfortable in your clothes is sexy. Liking the way you look is sexy. *Feeling sexy is sexy!!*

That triggers a turn on, the body reacts to sexy things.

Here’s the kicker: Cis Women get this too!!! It’s literally just a lady boner!

Over time this reaction happens less and less as you get more used to preseting as yourself. Eventually most clothes are just clothes, it’s just your new normal.

But that special outfit that makes you feel really hot? That new dress that you try on for the first time and feel really cute in? That lingerie that you bought specifically to feel sexy in?

Yes, that triggers it. All it means is thst you’re happy.

Let me tell you, the massive relief my friend displayed at learning that this was completely normal was palpable. The poor girl had been stressing about that so hard.

She didn’t even know about AGP, but she knew the stigmas and was terrified that this meant she was fake.

Excellent example, thank you!