@cafowogor - I think that regret is much more common than you realize, but the people who express their regret publicly are shouted down, ostracized, no-platformed and threatened. I’ve witnessed it. It’s only recently that it has become much more easy to transition. It used to be that you had to go through very thorough and extended psychological evaluations prior to surgery. Now kids are getting hormone treatment before puberty. I really think that in 10-15 years, we will be hearing from a movement of people who were transitioned as children and who feel their lives were ruined because of it.
I’m not saying that I think you will live to regret a decision to transition. I obviously don’t know you, and I don’t know anything about your background or how long you’ve been struggling with this, and even if I did, it wouldn’t be my place to decide what your truth is. But I do find the drastic uptick in the number of people who claim to be struggling with their gender concerning. A lot of older people who are gay will tell you that they struggled with gender identity at one point, but when they finally accepted their sexuality and grew older and became more comfortable with their own truths, they were then able to embrace their physical bodies. But I don’t think kids these days are getting the kind of sophisticated help that will help them sort out the nuance. I hear stories of kids who don’t fit a certain mold just kind of being railroaded into identifying as transgender. So, yeah, I would worry and want to make sure that my child had enough time to experiment just living and loving as he or she is, because pumping hormones into your body for the rest of your life is nothing to be taken lightly. It wouldn’t be an issue of not accepting my child, I would be concerned for his or her health. But, ultimately, of course, it’s not my decision to make.
Regarding the clothing - I can tell you that 80-90% of all women in the United States are wearing the wrong size bra. So go to Nordstrom and have a proper fitting. 