[ SECRET POST #1572 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1572 ⌋


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I feel kind of similar.It's really weird, because I remember being 10, 11, 12 (so, we're talking early 90s here) and just being so upset that I wasn't a boy. I think if I had more exposure to trans topics (and my mom hadn't jumped down my throat about "already raising one son!" when I just wanted to cut my hair) I probably would have explored that avenue, but I'm kind of glad I didn't, because I don't really feel that way anymore (except I always have been and probably always will be envious of the flat chest), though. For me, I realized that my personal style and preferences, though they tended to be more stereotypically masculine, weren't dictated by my gender.

I often wonder if my situation is the sort that others might call "genderless" but I just don't feel that way. I HAVE a gender (and kind of feel like this push to separate gender and sex at the level that people seem to want to is silly), I just don't attach anything to it like "this is what it means to be a girl/boy." Of course, feeling the way I do still isn't easy in today's world, given the people bitching about the J. Crew lady who painted her son's toenails pink or that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt let Shiloh dress like a boy (Gasp! How will she know how to be a girl?!!") but whatever.

[citrinesunset.livejournal.com]

I kind of had the opposite experience. I felt pretty satisfied with the thought of being a butch woman and maybe becoming an awesome drag king -- until I actually started expressing my style more and realized that continuing to be read as a woman was annoying at best and hurtful at worst. Deep down, I'd been hoping I'd be read as androgynous or maybe even a guy, and the fact that I wasn't was a bit of a punch to the gut and caused me to rethink some things.

I don't think my style is that connected to my gender, either, though. I'm pretty feminine, actually.