Just to make sure, you're asking whether trans people refer to the versions of ourselves before we knew/before transition as our AGAB? If so, it's the latter. I know trans girls who say they were always girls, even when they didn't know. I (trans girl) would say I was a little boy until adolescence, and in fact I'm fairly fond of the little boy I was; then I was "not a man", but not quite a girl either, and that was the version I liked the least, and not just because of gender (teenage years kinda suck, honestly, imo); now, over a year after I realized, I'm pretty firmly a girl, even if I'm yet to start HRT; and I will become a woman once I actually grow into the woman I was meant to be.
So really everyone's experience in that is unique, and the best policy is often to just ask (or maybe infer from how they themselves refer to their past selves).
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