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A lot of people have been asking me if I'm just a binary trans woman now or if I still identify as NB or genderqueer.
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My gender situation has shifted so much in the last year I no longer trust my ability to make long-term predictions about it.
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I know what steps I want to take next, and that involves doing a lot of things associated with binary trans women (hormones, voice training)
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But I don't have a definite long-term destination in mind.
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Check back in a year or two. If I'm basically just living my life as a binary trans woman, then there we have it, I'm a woman.
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But maybe I'll still want to hold on to the non-binary identity. I think I just have to wait and see how things feel in a larger time frame.
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This is why for now I like the term "trans femme." Saying "I am a woman" still feels to me like an awful lot of ontological commitment.
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And an affirmation of an experience that is not quite yet my experience.
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But I also don't think people who call me a trans women are wrong or need to be corrected. I'm just at an early stage of that experience.
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TL;DR it's a work-in-progress, I don't have a grand unified theory, and I will keep you posted.
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Don't feel like you need to. These things take time, figure it out for yourself and take all the time you need. <3
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Welcome aboard sweetheart To the label train, it gets more complicated than you thought but you still want to know your own label
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