JemmaDec 2, 2022

Trans folks, I am curious, which option best fits your lived experience early in life?

Boost for reach please.

Feeling you want to be a gender other than AGAB
31.2%
Feeling that you are a gender other than AGAB
25.9%
Neither option fits
27.8%
Not trans, but wanted to press a button
15%
Poll ended at .
Show threadJessie Ann (she/they)

@jemma @epistemophagy Early life was more about surviving the violence and abuse that only in hindsight I understand as being significantly related to gender.

Hurt and jealousy about certain things I was denied is probably what gave some definition to my sense of self that ultimately became semi-gendered, but is still pretty murky and fluid.

Dec 2, 2022 at 11:58amWeb
Show threadJessie Ann (she/they)Dec 2, 2022
@jemma @epistemophagy I was really oblivious about gender and, since people communicated either with what was supposed to be self-evident code I did not understand or with punishment for not adhering to it, I don’t believe any of this was verbalized for me in terms of ‘I want this’ or ‘I feel this’ statements directly about gender. Instead, I was just constantly confused by what I now know was forced gender crap.
Show threadJessie Ann (she/they)Dec 2, 2022
@jemma @epistemophagy Which I is to say, I guess a little bit of A, B, and C.