Someone wrote…

I’m not as frustrated by my body as I am with the fact that the clothing I want to wear isn’t cut for it.

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And what are you thinking about gender right now?

Charlie wrote…

I was a boy, who became a grrl, who became a boi. I’m so happy with this that I sometimes just scream with joy.

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And what are you thinking about gender right now?

Someone wrote…

I feel like my parents won’t accept me until I prove that it is the right choice. I feel like I have to be the parent and the kid, and raise this new person on my own.

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Someone wrote…

A lot of guys joke about being “a lesbian trapped in a man’s body.” So many that I fear my inner identity will never be taken seriously.

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Someone wrote…

Sometimes I wonder who I’m transitioning for: me, or all the people who see me. I wonder if my budding breasts are worth the pain. When I wake up in the morning in the dark, naked and swathed in blankets, I am me, with no pronouns or gender or perceptions. It is once I turn on the lights that the doubt begins.

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Someone wrote…

Reading the quotes here at Genderfork, I’ve realized how different everyone’s gender experience is… nothing like mine at all. It makes me feel very scared that I’m not doing the right thing. Though, maybe it makes me feel kind of more like myself.

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Someone wrote…

There are people who talk to me like I can’t “switch” pronouns. Too late. I already have.

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Someone wrote…

I guess I had known it before…but it really hit me today that just because I want to present a certain way, that doesn’t define who I am. And just because I have a certain identity, that doesn’t require me to look a certain way physically. These two things do not have to be congruent.

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Someone wrote…

My room is a label free zone. The words used to describe sex, gender and sexuality, even the ones I use to describe myself as best I can, are not welcome here. I leave them outside the door, beside my Star Wars shoes and my Gryffindor scarf, and then I close the door behind me.

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Someone wrote…

Chromosomes are not displays of character.

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Someone wrote…

I’ve got the nicest beard out of any woman I know. And the best hair out of all the men.

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Someone wrote…

I’m going to quit identifying as gender-queer and start identifying as gender-wow!

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Someone wrote…

I found out that I was genderqueer the night before last. I had been considering it for a while now, going in-between states of maybe-I-am and maybe-I’m-not. But now, in full-blown glory, I spoke to a dear friend about it. And she said something that I will always remember: “You are free to express yourself in any way you see fit, and no one should hold you back from that.” And I think I knew that deep down already, but being able to really hear it in conversation changed everything for me. I feel free.

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And what are you thinking about gender right now?

Someone wrote…

i identify as mostly female, butch, something along those lines…definitely not as male. but, it makes my day when a stranger calls me “Sir” or “Mister”!

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And what are you thinking about gender right now?

enigma wrote…

Being male bodied, six foot seven inches tall, with a female mind, spirit and sexuality, it would be easier to exist in a world without the concept of gender. I don’t want to choose a gender, I just want to be me.

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Someone wrote…

Just because I don’t see myself as entirely female, it doesn’t mean I can’t be just as much of a feminist!

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Someone wrote…

I’m not transitioning. I am just reconfiguring.

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Someone wrote…

One of my teachers expressed personal gender ambiguity the other day in class. All of the other students were either shocked or confused, but I just felt thrilled – finally, someone else!

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And what are you thinking about gender right now?

Someone wrote…

I’m MtF-bodied, and when I was physically male I hated going shirtless, but now I actually feel really comfortable in a fun-colored bra and jeans.

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And what are you thinking about gender right now?

Someone wrote…

I am not male. I am a human with a penis.

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And what are you thinking about gender right now?