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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • Repression. I never hated being my birth gender, but there was 100% a whole other half of me that I tried to hold back out of fear. That half of me was the half that knew what I wanted to wear and what I wanted my voice to sound like, all that stuff.

    The only thing I ever did for that half of me (until I was in my 20s) was grow my hair out, because that’s socially acceptable for men. I was envious of people like Jaden Smith for wearing skirts, and of the women around me, both for dressing how I couldn’t and for being able to dress like a boy and still be pretty.

    Tbh I haven’t gotten over that fear to this day.








  • I never really “felt like a woman” either, honestly. And most of the time I still don’t.

    I always thought “feeling like a woman” was something that you’d just feel all the time. I don’t think that’s the case, though. We’re all just humans first and foremost, and that’s what we should expect to feel like most of the time.

    What helped me through my confusion was realizing that it’s less about how you feel and more about how certain things make you feel. It’s about what makes you happy and what gives you confidence. What gives me confidence is having my hair done up and wearing more feminine clothes/accessories. Or less obvious things like my handwriting being more feminine, playing as a girl in videogames, or having my bed full of Squishmallows and having more colorful blankets.

    It’s not a passive feeling. And I never felt that way very often because I dressed and acted the way I was raised to believe I should dress and act. So I guess my advice is to just try new things and seeing how you feel about them.