
It’s more that your whole life you’re conditioned to refer to yourself and respond to the name your parents gave you and the pronouns of your birth sex. Even if your deadname and AGAB pronouns feel wrong/unnatural, it still takes time to fully separate yourself from them. If someone was in denial or had to delay transitioning there’s also the additional mental block of forcing yourself to respond to a name/pronouns that you know are wrong for safety or out of fear, which takes time to unlearn