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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-10-08 06:43 pm

[ SECRET POST #2471 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2471 ⌋

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pantswarrior: Laguna scratches his head. (huh?)

Re: When did gender become a thing for you?

[personal profile] pantswarrior 2013-10-09 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
Gender has never been a thing I thought about. I thought that was fairly normal until a few years ago (and I'm in my mid-30s). The whole "gender identity" idea seems utterly bizarre to me - I consider myself female because I was born with female parts, but if not for those parts? I dunno. I just don't really care - if I had to have a double mastectomy or something, I'd be cool with that and maybe try living as a dude for awhile just out of curiosity. It wouldn't mess up my mental image of myself. (Heck, I'm 5'3" and scrawny and female, and my mental self-image is akin to the Terminator. XD)

The thing that first made me realize this was apparently odd was talking to a trans friend about how that sort of thing even works, and admitting I didn't really get it - I did "male" things and got mistaken for male and such and that just made me all the more certain that I wouldn't want to cater to stereotypes by saying I was really not female, because it would be like saying females couldn't be that way too... and my very patient friend said maybe I didn't get it because I'm agendered and have no strong attachment to a gender identity. Which makes rather a lot of sense.