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Is it possible to have discontent with your gender and not be transgender?

Discussion in 'Gender Identity and Expression' started by Nikinja, Jun 20, 2015.

  1. Nikinja

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    (Or genderfluid?)
     
  2. Helicoprion

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    Yes, of course.
     
  3. Invidia

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    Like Helicoprion^ said, yes, it is.

    However, could you perhaps elaborate a bit? In which way do you feel discontent, how much and how often? Is it something that gets you down daily? Would you prefer changes to your gender expression?
     
  4. Nikinja

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    Maybe this poem that I wrote over the course of several days will help.

    I just don't get it
    I'm such a guy
    I don't know what it feels like
    But I'll write about it
    From my points of view
    Maybe somewhere we'll find a clue

    There's something marvelous about my small feet
    Perfect for some high-heeled shoes
    But I'm a man still
    What have I done?
    What do I do?

    Suddenly the change is coming again
    I feel so small, I feel so pretend
    I feel so elegant, like a fly in a cocoon
    But I know that I'll regain myself soon

    Just when I'm feeling okay
    Reality hits
    I try to cry tears from my face
    For inside the stream's at an infinite pace
    My body thinks that I'm just pretend

    But somehow I'm content
    It's nothing to repent
    The mountain's gone away
    Just the little things today

    Maybe it goes either way
    May be for some it's a ball of clay
    Gender is just a coincidence
    But sometimes it's like it never goes away.

    I wonder what it's like for most
    The constant feeling of one or the other
    Or the absence of such feeling at all
    Maybe it's just the sense
    That this is who you're supposed to be

    I can sense that gender is something absurd
    And at the same time something completely with rationality
    I've been on both sides in my mind
    I wonder what it'd be like in real life

    I guess I have that luxury.