I always say I never felt 'latched' to a gender. I just kind of always felt like myself, and I never felt like I had to do certain things or be a certain way to fit into a certain mold.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I always felt like the male from the time I was a child. There wasn't much feminine about me.
I even felt like I liked guys better than women - that men were relevant and women weren't. It took me a while to realize I'd been socialized to have a slighting view of my own gender.
Gender fluidity is not really feeling like you're at one end of the spectrum or the other. For the most part, I definitely don't identify as any gender. I'm not a guy; I don't really feel like a woman, but obviously I was born one. So, I'm somewhere in the middle, which - in my perfect imagination - is like having the best of both sexes.
I felt alien my whole life, but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a boy. I really had gender issues.
I think of my gender as a part of my complex humanity.
A lot of people say I seem masculine, but I don't feel it. I feel intrinsically feminine. I'd love to be one of the boys but I always felt a bit on the outside. Maybe my masculine qualities come from overcompensating because I'm not one of the boys.
I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.
I think I've always had that struggle my whole life, of feeling a little bit more gender-neutral, feeling more comfortable as a creative person when I'm dressed like a boy, when I'm dressed more masculine.
When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.