"But you never showed any signs!" This is often the first refrain trans people hear from those nearest and dearest to us who want to invalidate our truth and prevent our transition. This statement closely dovetails into the idea that only those who were strongly aligned to their actual gender from an early age and loudly and persistently clung to that assertion despite any influence to stay our birth assigned sex are allowed to transition. It says, that if we never were seen making any assertions, or even acting with any gender divergent behaviors, then we really can't be transgender. I have already spoken about how there is no one narrative, or one way to be transgender, and told much of my own story. I am now going to delve more into the insidious problem of the the so-called-signs. The foremost problem with this idea is the fact of confirmation bias. Most people fail to see facts that don't fit into the worldview they have built for the...