Someone wrote…

I was volunteering at a face-painting booth and met a little boy who had his nails painted green. I told him they were very pretty and he told me that his sister painted them and he was going to get some painted pink as well. This pretty much made my day.

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And what are you thinking about gender right now?

Someone wrote…

I identify with music more than I ever did with masculinity and femininity. I wonder how many weird looks people would give me if I started telling people my gender was “punk rock.”

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Someone wrote…

My vagina is not a threat to my masculinity.

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Someone wrote…

My friends don’t understand my abhorrence for public restrooms. I guess when you don’t get glared at just for going to pee, you don’t really know what it’s like.

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Someone wrote…

My girlfriend tells me that she likes me as “female.” She doesn’t want to date a boy. I wonder if this is helping me to accept myself as female, or if it’s just damaging my true transsexual identity.

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Someone wrote…

I want to be able to talk to someone, say I’m neither male nor female and not have the discussion become about that.

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Jennikins wrote…

I’m a female-bodied queer who dresses in mostly woman-assigned clothes and who usually feels like my queerness and my gender variability gets lost in the presentation I feel comfortable with. Today a friend whom I’ve never talked to about gender told me, “I know you’re not butch, but I really don’t think of you as all woman. You’ve definitely got a masculine streak to you.” I think it’s the best compliment I’ve ever gotten from someone I’ve only known for a month.

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Someone wrote…

I’ve finally realized that my gender isn’t something I have to “find” inside myself. If I’m capable of thinking of myself as genderqueer, that’s probably proof enough that I am.

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Someone wrote…

I want to be more thin and lean partly because I want to appear more androgynous. But it’s fucked up that I associate thinness with androgyny.

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Someone wrote…

I just watched the “Be Prepared” bit from The Lion King for the first time in years.

I never realized how big an influence on my mannerisms and gestures was Scar. Seriously, his motions and mannerisms can get so…queer!

Makes a certain amount of sense, since Scar was always one of my favourite Disney villains.

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Someone wrote…

Today, I convinced my friend that she does not need to be a man to wear a bow-tie and mustache.

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Someone wrote…

I look at my daughter and wonder— would I be a better mom than a dad? I look at myself and think “I want to be her mom and not her dad.”

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Meirion wrote…

Wearing anything at all feels like drag sometimes, so I may as well wear what I like.

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Someone wrote…

I think I’m starting to turn into the same boy that I used to imagine I would fall in love with. I guess I wasn’t that far off…

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Someone wrote…

I say I wear dresses to fuck with people, but really they just make me feel sexy.

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Someone wrote…

I shaved my ankles last night, just to see what it would feel like before I try the whole leg. I found a birthmark I didn’t know I had; I’m taking it as a sign.

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Someone wrote…

I’m a boy who wants to be a girl who is attracted to girls.

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Someone wrote…

I’ve been shaving my legs and armpits almost every day since I was twelve. I’m twenty-three, and I’m beginning to let my hair grow again. I feel so free! And stubbly. As it turns out, three days worth of hairy pits is not the hairpocalypse I imagined it would be.

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Someone wrote…

When I’m attracted to men I feel gay. When I’m attracted to women I feel like a lesbian. I’m comfortable with this but a lot of people don’t get it.

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Someone wrote…

In mens’ clothes, I feel obviously curvy and like a woman.

In a bikini, I feel like my “masculine” personality betrays me.

I think my genderfluid is always in the wrong cup.

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And what are you thinking about gender right now?