Not sure if this is the right subreddit for this, but I'm posting it anyways.

I'm a 16 year old transgender guy. As a kid, I was taught boys are gross, boys are bad, etc. which made me feel awful about being a closeted trans guy. Women would often comment on my hypermasculinity and say how I need to look like a lady since men aren't good.

I realized I was a boy when I was 5, found the term transgender when I was 10, and now even at 16 years old I still feel bad for wanting to transition. I find it ironic that women are allowed to put men down but if a man does it to a woman that's sexist. Sexism goes for both sexes not just women. I have a lot of TERF like women in my family who have stopped talking to me for defending mens rights and being masculine.

I still have these ideas in my head that it's bad to be a man. Even female teachers (sometimes male too) heavily reinforce these ideas. This has made me put off officially coming out for years. Equality does not mean men<women, it means men=women.

There's nothing wrong with being a man, whether you're trans or not. I wish the world could see that.