I asked this elsewhere, but nobody responded. I don't actually expect you to know everything, but another pov is always useful. (I've had this conversation with trans and cis friends before.)
How does any person know if they are supposed to be a guy/gal?
(And where is the line between subverting whatever paradigms and actually belonging on the other side?)
I'm not sure what you're saying here. Are you implying that I haven't thought about it or that people who feel pretty certain about falling onto one side or the other haven't?
(The choice of words, btw, was in response to a statement in a mutual friend's post (which may have prompted this post) where she asked the question of whether certain things meant she was "supposed to be a guy".)
Most questions, the more you've thought about them, the easier it is to come up with an answer or at least a summary of what your longer answer would be. In my experience, the people who have thought about gender more often have difficulty answering the most simple questions about it. But they could write a book.
How does any person know if they are supposed to be a guy/gal?
(And where is the line between subverting whatever paradigms and actually belonging on the other side?)
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and a lot of your part of how you came to it is a lot like mine. this is getting eerie.
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The similarities are quite astonishing, aren't they? I didn't know that your path was similar to mine, but it somehow doesn't seem surprising.
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I think it depends on what is meant by the words/question.
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That may be so, but clearly a large number of people feel pretty certain about it one way or the other.
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(The choice of words, btw, was in response to a statement in a mutual friend's post (which may have prompted this post) where she asked the question of whether certain things meant she was "supposed to be a guy".)
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