Transphobes did not 'predict' anything about transage people. Age incongruence has been documented since 1948, when Magnus Hirschfeld described 'infantile' patients with 'attributes which are normally found in children' and who are 'averse to regarding themselves as grown up'.

https://twitter.com/Evie_Magazine/status/1610688767752376345

Like many psychological researchers, Dr Hirschfeld made a number of inaccurate assumptions, but some descriptions of his patients are remarkably similar to those seen in communities for people with age dysphoria today and undoubtedly refer to the same condition in some cases.

Saying 'Everyone feels younger' to deny the existence of age dysphoria is like saying 'Everyone feels sad' to deny the existence of depression.

Depression is not just feeling sad, and age dysphoria is not just feeling younger. Age dysphoria is a persistent, impairing distress that results from a mismatch between someone's internal sense of their age/development (age identity) and their chronological age.

Transage people have no intent of trivialising age regression. In fact, many transage people are also age regressors.

Age regression is a mental reversion to a younger age. Transage reflects a longterm incongruence between one’s age identity & their chrono age.

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https://twitter.com/stickbugginn/status/1590069685483364353

They are similar in some ways: both involve identifying mentally as an age other than one’s chronological age; socially presenting as that age identity; and both can be related to age dysphoria. And yes, some age regressors and even some ageplayers experience age dysphoria too.