Children do this experimentation naturally but are shamed out of it and railroaded into their sex assignment even though you’d get the same result for 90% of kids by just letting it run its course. The fact that there are adults who haven’t experimented with their gender before is a sign of major societal repression.
Mine is similar: You can only be true cis if you are confronted and in contact with all faces of your sexuality. Everything else is compensation and/or unhealthy.
Yeah, I think the first time I "experienced gender" was that period of time when my kid knew "mom" but not "dad" and even though he meant it in a gender neutral way, I still felt strongly that it is wrong.