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What is your gender identity?


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What is your gender identity?  

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  1. 1. Which do you identify as?

    • Boy (cis/not transgender)
      259
    • Girl (cis/not transgender)
      96
    • Transgender boy
      7
    • Transgender girl
      23
    • Bigender
      18
    • None of the above
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    • Questioning
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I was assigned male at birth, and that's how I identified when I first signed up here, but in the past few years I've started to identify as a female (even coming up with a new name for myself) and I kind of feel happier that way, honestly. Truth be told I felt uncomfortable with a lot of my body changes during puberty and whatnot when looking back I've always felt more feminine and soft and have a desire to be seen as female. I feel like hanging around certain communities especially helped me figure that out although i sometimes feel like i'm invalid

tl;dr - I'm a transgender female.

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In all honesty, I find myself unable to wrap my head around the concept of gender.

I don't think there was ever a time in my life when I made an actual distinction between males and females.

I'm not blind to the physical differences, of course, but I've always been baffled by how people treat others differently on the basis of their sex.

Originally (while I can understand gender dysphoria, as I see it as more of a subconscious rejection or unease towards one's own physical traits), I used to think about how I never quite understood why transgender people assigned such an importance to gender.

But then I realized: it's not just transgender people that assign a lot of importance to gender.

People in general have always done that.

On average, kids seem to mostly form interpersonal bonds with people of their gender, and I believe the same could be said for teenagers and adults, although to varying degrees.

Personally, I never gave a shit.

I remember when I was a little kid there was this girl I used to spend time with, and my mother tried to get me to "play with the other boys instead", and when I asked why she could never give me much of an explanation other than "because you're a boy".

I remember a time when I must've been around 6 or 7, and some dumbass kid asked me if a boy I was chatting with was my boyfriend. I made a confused expression in response, cause I GENUINELY didn't understand how that was meant to be an insult, so I asked "what if he were?". Let's... just say, my mother wasn't happy when I shared that with her!

So I believe I'm the odd one out.

I consider myself a male, because... of the way I look, I guess. But I don't have any particular attachment to said "gender", as I don't consider it relevant to my identity and who I am as a person, as I would act exactly the same way regardless of how I looked.

My current understanding is that it's a psychological construct of sorts.Now, most things which shape society are, so I don't mean that in the sense that it's something on which people's concerns should be dismissed at all.

I do nonetheless feel that if we could all just give less of a damn about what term we assign ourselves in an attempt to fit in somewhere, and just were ourselves regardless of what's supposed to be feminine or masculine and whatnot, we would have a much more unbiased perspective on things.

But it could very well be that I'm blind to something that's very real to most people and there's just something I'm missing regarding all this.

I don't know. I find it confusing.

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