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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Tyrone Slothrop

@mindpersephone Cis male here. I’m the most boring sort of person imaginable: middle class middle aged dad.

I have in fact thought about my gender, at different times in my life, and more so since I started spending more time on the Fedi.

But I’ve always landed at “I’m cis and male, and that’s just who I am”.

Even though I was raised by a feminist single mom, I grew up with a lot of toxic masculinity. Putting that in the trash feels great. So my thing is more “i want men to be better.”