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I’ve never really felt straight.Īgain I found myself boxing myself into another binary, just from a different direction. My girlfriend recently came out to me as transgender and I’ve had much struggle with figuring out how this relates to my largely queer identity. I feel bad for those times I had discussions about non-binary identities in the past, as I think I understand why gender is a far more nuanced and less black and white concept.Īs I broke out of this concept of gender discovering my sexuality to be far away from that of anything remotely heteronormative, I’ve met and talked to a ton of people with varying degrees of views on gender identity. I’ve been shown a lot more about gender identity, and I no longer believe it is a binary any longer. I’ve always been a proud advocate of transgender people, though I have had a lot of trouble accepting identities outside the binaries in the past. I’ve seen much of what I previously understood to be concrete be shown to me to actually be quite malleable.

I used to be very assured of my maleness as it be, with the expectations of being a man pushed on me, and being assured that this was the way things were and would always be. I’ve found over this past year how much of a box I have pushed myself into.