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hi everyone

i just joined this community. my so or my genderfree friend, is transitioning, or thinking about transitioning, hasn't really started but will start soon. we were talking about it and i began to wonder about choosing a gender in the first place. why is it that transpeople choose a gender or choose to keep up the binary? and how would they be able to continue to question the gender binary when they have decided to be either man or woman? from reading about this community, i realized the infinite amount of identities that people can identify with, what im interested in i guess is how and why would a transgendered person choose to be either a man or woman? to support the definitions/stereotypes of man and woman?

any response would be great...i don't know if that came out the way that i wanted, these are questions i had floating around in my head.