I try not to be too hard on my kid self, everyone's cringy growing up but i'm at a point where I can just laugh at the childishness of my younger self without any malice.
I used to write A LOT of stories where the characters were trans, but I wasn't fully aware of the concept at the time.
I'm afraid those stories may have come off offensive to readers who understood their gender better than me.
I'm NB but didn't know it back then. I never said the character was trans or went into much detail about their gender yet there were a lot of telling moments that implied it, so I feel like I wasn't being informative or helpful to young readers who may have been going through gender soul searching themselves.
I'd hate for a story like that to be taken as the author being disrespectful to the subject. If I still had the log in info, I'd want to go back and make an authors note that those stories were written from the perspective of a very confused teen who was going through some stuff.