Rhii Alexander 🏳️⚧️I don't wanna dress like a boy, I haven't for years at this point, but that's all I do
It's all I do, because when I have dressed affirmably, I have been labelled a "creepy fat guy in a crop top"
Just for clearance; I have factually never been overweight, my highest BMI was 22, my lowest was just above 12, I have either been well within a healthy weight, or underweight to dangerously underweight
And yet, I have never attended a single furry con or large furry event in which I have not been labelled as "fat"; despite the fact I know that I have medically never been overweight, this has cut deep, because this is all that I have ever heard about my body
I am repeatedly told I cannot dress affirmably because I don't fit the "look"; which just seems to be a common factor to the community I have called home for over a decade, they are so obsessed with aesthetics and looking a certain way for the social media camera, that they have completely abandoned the idea of escapism and just allowing people to be their true authentic selves; to be point where I and other genderqueer and trans folks I know have been intensely peer pressured into literally fucking hiding ourselves and I'm fucking sick of it, I literally hide my desired gender expression so I wont be verbally struck down by members of my supposed open, queer inclusive community
Shayn
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