Mastodawn

When I was figuring my self out, one of the things that cracked off a big chunk of shell was a reasonably famous dude on Twitter (well you know Twitter famous) saying he'd thought about his gender and come to the conclusion he was really a dude.

Up until that point I'd been hiding behind the assumption that anyone who actually thought about this would end up figuring they aren't their gender assigned at birth, and most people have just never thought about it but were probably some flavour of non binary at least.

RE: masto.hackers.town/users/siege/statuses/116177643222854981

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Persephone Mar 5

So... Hay... Cis folk, I... Errr... Think there are some of you following me... Maybe...

Want to do a trans person a solid and chime in with your answers below.?

Have you thought about your gender? What it would be like to not be your current gender?

Did it feel good? Better? "Oh fuck no"?

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Naga (he/him)

@mindpersephone I do think about it.

Until a month ago I would have flatly said "cis male."

Since I started a few years ago discovering I like the feel of wearing skirts, and from there looking pretty more generally (e.g., lipstick, nail polish, blouses), I've thought about it and studied the question in myself, oh, a few times a year. Still landing on cis male with fluid gender presentation.

I've more recently started to check in again in a different light. Not that cis male was wrong, or contradictory, or dysphoric, but more that I didn't feel particularly attached or invested in being male.

Now I'm testing different ideas for how right they feel. Agender didn't seem the right fit, so I'm currently sitting a bit with "demimale" to see how that rests with me.

Short answer: Better.