[ SECRET POST #2500 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #2500 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.


__________________________________________________



02. [repeat]


__________________________________________________



03.


__________________________________________________



04.


__________________________________________________



05.


__________________________________________________



06.


__________________________________________________



07.


__________________________________________________



08.


__________________________________________________



09.


__________________________________________________



10.















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 033 secrets from Secret Submission Post #357.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think your reaction should be... normal.

Maybe it's that I don't have a strong gender identity, but I wonder what "gender identity" is supposed to be anyway. I'm a woman so I must like "feminine" stuff? But I don't know why we have to assign anything as being "masculine" or "feminine". I like video games, martial arts, and being outdoors... am I genderfluid or something?

I don't know, I'm not talking about actual transgender people. But "gender identity" talk makes me a bit frustrated because it seems heavily rooted in stereotypes half the time. Same with physical appearance - having short hair and a flat chest doesn't make you any less feminine, really.

[(Anonymous)]

For what it's worth, as someone who identifies as genderqueer it's not at all about what clothes I wear or what hobbies I enjoy, it's about feeling as though the body I have doesn't match my mental image of what my body should be. For a lot of trans* folk, the way you dress is a way of expressing your gender identity, not necessarily "I like dresses, ipso facto I am a woman" or "I like video games, must be a boy". What you do is an expression of what you are, if that makes sense? And while some people feel better able to express what they are by embracing stereotypes, some people don't.

Speaking personally, I look like a woman. I've got big hips and big breasts. I don't feel like a woman -- this is not the body I would have, given my druthers -- but I don't really mind people calling me by female pronouns, because I don't feel my ideal body has sexual characteristics and I don't feel strongly enough about how other people see me to want to bother with different pronouns. Misgendering doesn't bother me. I can see how it would bother other people, though, and I don't by any means speak for all trans* people.