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Originally Posted by GenderqueerBPD
You're right: I have been getting hung up on labels. Part of that is because I feel like I don't know who I am if I don't have the labels. I don't get nearly this hung up on sexuality labels, but I think that's because I've ID'ed as some kind of queer for years now, whereas I've only ID'ed as genderqueer for seven months. I think another part of it has to do with the fact that I will be persuing hormones once I get back from vacation and my experience has me worried about getting approved (even though the clinic I picked out is an informed consent clinic and explicitly states on their website that they acknowledge non-binary identities).
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Makes sense. We as people tend to label things. Our philosophies, politics, likes and dislikes. Some times we're lost when we don't have an easily identifiable term for something.
I don't think you need to look any certain way to be or feel "tran" though, but I'm definitely no expect on the subject. I have one friend who identifies as female but for many reasons she won't be getting the surgery or altering her appearance in any way, but I don't think that makes her any less tran.