How do I know if I am transgender?

Though there are many differing ways in answering this, you can start by asking if your "insides" match your "outsides." For example, someone could have a female identified body, but tend to feel more masculine or take on emotional traits not always identified with femininity. Although the term is generally grouped with the LGBT+ group, being transgender does not necessarily invoke a certain sexual orientation. People can be unique with their inside identity, gender expression, sexual attraction, and sex.

If you don't feel comfortable with the gender you were assigned at birth, you might be transgender. In the end of the day, you're the only one who can tell what your gender is, and whether you're transgender or not.

You have to trust yourself there is no one but you who knows you. its ok to not know right away what gender you are. just have faith in yourself and when you are ready to come out around yourself with supporting people.

there isn't a specific way to know if you're transgender. But if you feel uncomfortable with your genitals or any other part of your body you may be transgender.

My personal experience began around age 15. I had a brain bleed and had to cut off all of my hair. The first time I looked into a mirror after that, I knew my body wasn't the right one. I began to look into being a boy in my situation. Obviously surgery wasn't an option. I dressed as boyishly as I could. I lost some friends at this time, but I realized that it was for the best. Ultimately, a little over two years later, I've found my place. I'm happy with my friends and even my family has begun to accept me. So the moral of the story is, if you don't feel natural, embrace it!

You feel like the opposite sex in the wrong body. You feel as if in your mind you are the opposite sex. You yearn to act the opposite to what you are, feminine or masculine and may do so. Your characteristics may lean towards that of the opposite sex. You may feel you are subjugating your true self.

When you feel like you are trapped in the wrong body, that your body does not represent how you feel about your gender identity.

If you feel an active and undeniable sense of dysphoria in your body, a sense of being 'in the wrong body' that can't be shaken and leads to negative feelings and unhappiness.

If you feel as if you are in the wrong body or are wanting to wear the opposite gender's clothes, if you feel like you don't like who you are as your present gender or have feelings of wanting to be the opposite gender.

There is not simple answer to this, but generally speaking trans people tend to experience one or both of these things; 1) Feeling a strong need to live and be read as a different gender than the one you were assigned at birth. This often includes wanting to use clothes associated with a certain gender or feeling uncomfortable with certain gendered words like 'man/brother/he' or 'woman/sister/she'. 2) Feeling uncomfortable with gendered parts of your own body. Examples of this can be wanting to have a flat chest or feeling uncomfortable with having a penis.