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Genderqueer
Mar. 3rd, 2005 04:59 am![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
foxxygirltamara.livejournal.comI guess I'm now genderqueer or trans-as-gender, as I sometimes refer to my identity as. I really do feel like I'm inbetween somewhere but it isn't a simple case of bigenderism or androgny. I'm different than that. Anyone have any recommendations on one of the many genderqueer communities on LJ?
Also see my last post on my personal journal about this.
I'm young and I want to explore every possibility. I've ID'ed as trans since I was 15 and I knew I wasn't a boy for as long as I can remember. But did not being a boy mean I was a girl? For the longest time I thought so. Then, just a couple years ago, I was introduced to the concept of "alternative genders" and multiple-genders. It's fascinating and intriguing to me. I love the estrogen and how it's affected my mood and body and I'll likely stick with that but there's so much more to my gender than my hormonal levels.
How many of you out there ID as something other than "boy", "girl", "man", "woman", "MTF/FTF" or "FTM/MTM"? What have been your experiences with people's reactions to it?
When I was 16, I tried to come out to my parents (actually I was kind of outed), they thought my feminine appearance and belongings meant I was gay. I tried to explain to my mom about gender and how it didn't really matter and everything was all the same anyway but it didn't come out right (I was a scared and confused teenager) so I ended up denying I was trans and just saying I was bi. Four years later and I'm starting to transition, I'm changing my body but I don't think my gender is really changing, I still don't know what I am. When I come out to my parents, I'm just going to say that I'm a girl so I don't confuse them again and since, to some people (e.g. my therapist), that pretty much looks like what I'm doing. But to my friends and to myself, I'm something so much more complex than any traditional gender label could put on me. How should I explain that to people or should I even bother?
It's 5am and my head hurts from all this gender-talk. Good night :-)
Also see my last post on my personal journal about this.
I'm young and I want to explore every possibility. I've ID'ed as trans since I was 15 and I knew I wasn't a boy for as long as I can remember. But did not being a boy mean I was a girl? For the longest time I thought so. Then, just a couple years ago, I was introduced to the concept of "alternative genders" and multiple-genders. It's fascinating and intriguing to me. I love the estrogen and how it's affected my mood and body and I'll likely stick with that but there's so much more to my gender than my hormonal levels.
How many of you out there ID as something other than "boy", "girl", "man", "woman", "MTF/FTF" or "FTM/MTM"? What have been your experiences with people's reactions to it?
When I was 16, I tried to come out to my parents (actually I was kind of outed), they thought my feminine appearance and belongings meant I was gay. I tried to explain to my mom about gender and how it didn't really matter and everything was all the same anyway but it didn't come out right (I was a scared and confused teenager) so I ended up denying I was trans and just saying I was bi. Four years later and I'm starting to transition, I'm changing my body but I don't think my gender is really changing, I still don't know what I am. When I come out to my parents, I'm just going to say that I'm a girl so I don't confuse them again and since, to some people (e.g. my therapist), that pretty much looks like what I'm doing. But to my friends and to myself, I'm something so much more complex than any traditional gender label could put on me. How should I explain that to people or should I even bother?
It's 5am and my head hurts from all this gender-talk. Good night :-)