Label Expectations
Someone wrote…
Gender is a strange thing to think about. Intuitively it really is just what it is…unfortunately there are those that tell you how it ‘should’ be. For me this has always been a stumbling block. Even though I am transgender I feel so much pressure taking this label. I mean…even the label itself has expectations attached to it.
I have found recently that the term genderqueer seems to fit better…there is less pressure.
What’s your experience?
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March 5th, 2015 at 2:02 pm |
I feel the same pressure with the word transgender. even though technically I could be called trans, I don’t call myself that because there’s too much pressure that way to be one gender or another, to transition.
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March 10th, 2015 at 6:40 pm |
I use bigender because saying “trans man that is a little non-binary on the side” is apparently not transgender according to gender roles
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