@LunaCeleste The more I think about it, the more would need to be changed for me to have easily transitioned in my youth.
I would need that proper understanding. I'd need to not think it was shameful. I'd need to not be a conservative evangelical. I'd need my parents to be a LOT more open and a lot less stressed about everything else (the 80s was not a kind decade). Honestly, my parents' socio-economic class would need to change just in general.
And then maybe I'd have transed pre-puberty.