So I've been shaving my face and chest pretty much daily, wearing at least basic makeup pretty much whenever I leave the house, I've recently gotten into wearing dresses (after so long being uncomfortable about them) and gloves(!) and pretty much anything with lace, I'm recognising my body moving different (my walk, gestures and posture), and I'm interacting with others much more compassionately.

#Theminising HormoneTherapy has been great!

Completely unrelated: I keep hearing about people misgendering me as "she" instead of "they"?! =P

It's absolutely never malicious; I've been changing in ways that follow a particular script so it's easy to make the assumption that I'm a trans woman. (Some of these people weren't told my pronouns, and I just realised I don't actually have my pronouns in my instagram bio as a reminder, so perhaps everyone is off the hook.)

I wonder if some of this is people having trouble breaking out of binary thinking rather than just trying to be respectful?

There are a lot of ways to express myself right now that feel new and exciting and enjoyable, and were less possible to play with before HRT so I'm turning all the dials up at once. Most of them just happen to be traditionally feminine.

(Picture is of my dancing outfit from Friday night.)

But I've also become more interested in exploring and trying to better understand positive masculinity. It's wild that I essentially had to switch my hormone profile in order to even consider that type of exploration, let alone enthusiastically welcome it.

My styles keep changing rapidly. Maybe I'll have a drag king persona 6 months from now.

#AmblyPics