How come it takes till their 30s sometimes for someone to know their LGBT?
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I work for a health center that provides gender-affirming services and identity support programs. Stigma goes leaps and bounds to suppress people identifying and expressing their true selves, and often times when it seems like people are “learning” about that side of themselves later in life, it’s more a matter of them finding the support and courage to begin expressing what they have felt for most of the time they’ve been alive.
Other times, people grow to question the beliefs they’ve been programmed with in upbringing, and changes in thoughts/beliefs/judgements often preclude changes in feelings and behaviors, so exploration is more likely to occur.
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