[TheSeamster]

It's been good the past few weeks, gender dysphoria wise. I am wholly confident in who I am and how I want people to see me. Often I fall into that feeling that maybe I'm just going through a "phase" or i'm wrong. But then I sit there and think for a bit and decide, no, I'm not wrong.

When I do feminine things or go into the higher tones of my voice, I get uncomfortable. But then I cool off, calm down, and embrace my feminine habits and remember that they're part of my character and that they are not inherently bad. I love to sew and sing and love soft dolls and nice smelling things and frilly dresses and so on.



But I also love video games, and horror and action figures and combat boots and graphic t-shirts and running through the woods and playing in the mud.

I remember that instead of snuffing out my feminine habits in favor of more masculine ones, to let them harmonize and blend into the person that is me. I remind myself that these things are part of me, and how much I love them.

I get dysphoric when I'm called 'cute' or 'pretty' because people think I'm a girl. But I take these as compliments and remember that these aren't bad, just feminine. The only time it's really a problem is when I'm having a more masculine day and people say that. Then it feels like they're just trying to push my masculine side away.

Wow this got really rambly... Just kind of saying things at this point. But yeah. Don't ever let anyone tell you you can't do something because of your gender identity, or that it's wrong, or stereotyped. Do stuff cause ya like it!

Well said, Seamster! It sounds like you're in a great place... congrat's on that!

[TheSeamster]

Originally Posted by The Skeezyks

Well said, Seamster! It sounds like you're in a great place... congrat's on that!

Thanks Skeezyks! Life has been pretty okay. And okay is a good place to be. I still struggle a little being caught on those little gender binary thorns in my social life, but I and my friends have both gotten great at gender neutral language.

On the downside, one of my teachers seems to completely reject my androgyne identity. She is consistently cissexist toward me even after I talked with her privately. She refuses to allow me to play both male and female rolls and i had a skit group that had to disband because we didn't have the right ratio of 'boys and girls'.

It really got me ruffled, but on the upside we did find an even better skit!

So in the end it was pretty okay.