Consider journaling about them. It might give you some insight that would be hard to get otherwise!

Thanks for sharing! I can relate to a lot of your experience. Not dressing out for PE, wearing a shirt at the pool, hating facial hair, that feeling of feminizing and not looking back. And after everything, I’d still pick cis-woman if I could reroll my character.

My only advice is to just live it up and follow what feels right. If I can be just a little cliche; Life is about the journey, not the destination!

(I’ll try to add a little more to this soon. In a bit of a weird head space at the moment, but I at least wanted to get something of a reply to you.)

I’m out of the loop. What happened with Neil Gaiman?

😳

It raises more answers than questions, imo.

I can feel that. When I couldn’t get my estrogen refilled I started to feel crappy, and everything was much worse than it really was. I could see that making someone feel dysphoric.

When I first started to transition, I felt like I was 100% female, but after a while I just realized I’m not not a guy, but I am definitely a woman, lol.

It’s hard to describe without relying on stereotypes, but I feel just as comfortable in a group of ladies as I do with guys. (Generally speaking. Gender toxicity is very confusing and off putting, and I have a hard time getting along with those types)

Can I ask how long you’ve been transitioning? It took me about 8 years of social transition and 6 years of medical to figure it out.

FWIW, I think all the years of male conditioning have definitely affected how I feel my gender.

edit: fixed timeline. It dawned on me about 2 years ago

That pretty much describes it. But I don’t see non-binary as a third gender, just absence of a binary. I very much fit into the male/female binary.

I should have checked first. My bad.

Yeah, that fits pretty well!

Trump loves dictaters.

This is YouTube as well

Don’t be like that. Dogs are awesome.

I called this one pretty early on. Let’s see if it catches on or tanks the Goog.

That’s a lot of words for 'We manipulated them."

I think you hit the nail on the head. It’s being made about hypothetical implications, instead of being taken at face value…

Here’s another one: Are you more of a silly person or a serious person?

There are implications to both, and few would self identify as strictly one or the other, but I can easily see which side I tend to align with without labeling myself a “Serious/Silly Person”

It’s really blowing my mind that this concept isn’t more intuitive. (I’ve had this conversation with a family member who has a view very similar to yours)

I feel like I understand what they said, but maybe I’m not wording my question right.

Imagine that I’m asking whether you like blue more or green more. I’m not asking you what your favorite color is, or what color you’d paint your car, but generally which one of those two colors you tend to see yourself liking more.

I’m not asking anyone to strictly identify with one or the other. It’s a question of where on the spectrum between them you fall.

I am more of a big picture person and my partner is more of a details first person.

In the essay, Dreher argued that many on the right were displaying what he believed to be ugly qualities that define the modern left: language policing (see: Trump’s renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America”); rewriting history (see: a MAGA podcaster’s description of Winston Churchill as the “chief villain” of World War II); and, above all, identity-based politics. Dreher wrote that he saw white Christian men feeling disempowered and advocating for their own racial, gender, and religious interests; he was most disturbed by how often this form of “identity politics” seemed to manifest as aggressive antisemitism.

Woke is a slur to them. Literally the idea of being more aware is so offensive to them they made it hate speech.