I can't not. It occurs subconsciously for me at the level of identifier; I can't force myself to see a tree as a house no matter how good your argument is. I am happy to consciously accept everything else I can around this though!
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If they pass as a guy then I would love for us to get to a point where I can be honest that they read to me as male, yes.
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Other people calling me a woman makes me a woman. I don't really feel like I'm anything; the way I look shapes how people treat me, and this relationship between appearance and treatment seems to be what my gender is.
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I'm not telling them what they are, I'm telling them the gender *I process them as*.
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I assume he killed himself because he was forced into a gender role he didn't want - forced to wear clothes he didn't want, to act a way he didn't want, and expected to have a sexuality he didn't have.
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