* I wrote this on another blog I started last year, so I used the same date & time. This was the first and only post on that blog. *
It's time I've introduced myself to the world. It's time to start voicing my opinion and fighting back against ignorant people and ignorant thought.
I am a gender non-conforming individual. That means that I don't agree with or believe in the so-called traditional gender roles of our society. I don't believe that long hair or frilly or a dress means woman, nor do I believe that the lack thereof means man. And I don't believe that I should have to identify myself as my genitalia. I just want to be me, with all of the mannerisms, dress, and ideas that feel comfortable to me - regardless of the constructs that society has placed on them that fail to match my biological sex. So, whereas I abhor having to check one of two boxes as 'male' or 'female,' as of now those are my only choices on official documents. But since this is my blog, I don't have to "check" either one.
I know that some of my future readers will wonder about my biological sex - i.e. what I have in my pants - but I don't understand why this is important to them. In nature, this only becomes important for mating purposes, and I'm not trying to mate with everyone. Even in public restrooms, there are people that demand this information - scrutinizing me as if I somehow forgot what my sex/elimination organ is and staring at my body trying to compute 'penis' or 'vagina.' Do they really think that I forgot, or that I am there to terrorize them? No - I am there for the same reason they are: to do my business. And I should be entitled to the same level of privacy they expect for themselves.
I have failed to adequately confront those people and situations - bathroom and otherwise - and expose them for the ignorance and intolerance they represent and, intentionally or not, enforce. Mostly, because I didn't want to get into it with them but also because it can be very embarrassing. But there comes a point when enough is enough. So this is my way of speaking out, with the sole intent to break down the flimsy walls of stereotype and break into what really matters: humanity and the love of it.
Welcome to my transgendered life.
