Like i have little interest in changing presentation and definitly no interest in hormones, but i do have some degree of discomfort with the concept of masculinity

  • WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]@lemmy.today
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    5 months ago

    For a long time, I just assumed by discomfort with a male identity was just a dislike of toxic masculinity in particular. So, I said things like “I don’t identify as a man, but I’m technically cis.” Even when I acknowledged I wasn’t cis, I still didn’t consider myself trans because, at the time, I had no intentions of transitioning in any way.

    Anyways, presentation isn’t gender, there is no minimum amount of suffering required to be trans, you don’t need any sort of medical treatment to be trans, and trans isn’t short for transition. If you don’t jive with your agab, then you’re free to use the label.

    Funnily, our mom seemed to think my brother was questioning his gender when he brought up the topic of gender with her (because I had come out to him) and she say things like “See Bob? He’s a good man. You don’t have to be like those other bad examples of men to be one” to him to try to convince him that he was cis.

    Not trying to tell you how you should identify though. None of my business.