Becoming a real girl

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This is a longer question than most /adv/ threads but please just bear with me here.
Back story, I have an addiction of pretending to be a girl online. It’s no harm for anyone involved, and I actually see it as a booster for my social skills as I think it’s giving me a good basis on what a girl is thinking when I talk to one, and It's the only real talking I get to do as a neet shut in.
About a month ago I meet a new guy called Brendan. He never asked for nudes which was weird but I would only guess he was just one of those guys who just wanted someone to talk to. He messages me nearly every day for four weeks, which was incredibly longer than usual, but I kind of felt a bond with him, maybe sexual, I don’t know. I’m straight, I think. He made me feel like a real girl, not just a camwhore.
Two days ago, I wake up and my phones not on my desk. I spend an hour searching around my room and I ring my mom in case she’s seen it. She said her phone won’t charge so she just wanted to use mine while she was going to the shops because she’s always scared in case she gets mugged. She gets home and tells me she got a ‘call’ (kik message) from someone so she opened it thinking it was me
>it was Brendan
She fucking saw everything. She sat me down to have a ‘talk’ about my girl persona. I’m in tears at this point and I tell her it’s not something sexual. After an hour of crying she tells me it’s okay if I am more comfortable as a girl, and that I need to see a therapist to help me with these feelings. At first I thought she was being mad but now that I think about it, I am a girl. I don’t know I just want another opinion on this. Is this just gender dysphoria? I would ask /lgbt/ but I want cis opinions too. I have a cute face and I’m skinny. My mom already said she is happy for me to take hormones if I want to.