*stares*

[conuly]

I hope this doesn't come out the wrong way, but...

Dear god, how many of youse guys are transgendered/ambiguiously gendered/whatever????

I'm now up to four people on my friends list (that I know of). And I love you all dearly, and want everyone to be as happy as is reasonably possible. I just didn't know so many of my friends were... whatever the word is (I'm still not sure about that). Kinda like when I realized so many of my friends were religious, but different. (Actually, it's a tossup about which surprised me more.)

I mean, I understand why so many of my friends are autists, because I actively seek out autistic friends. And I understand why so many of my friends are bi, because most people are. But I'm a bit surprised at the number of people who identify as transgendered/whatever. I understand vaguely why various people are trans, but I'm not sure how chance led me to have more trans friends than I realized. Unless my view on statistics was completely effed up.

Yeah, this did come out wrong. I mean more along the lines of "wow, I'm surprised, I wasn't expecting that" not "OMG! UR ALL FREKES!!!!1111oneoneeleventyone!!!1". Once the surprise at the numbers wears off, I'll be back to my normal non-caring benevolence.

Incidentally, if you want to tell me anything revelatory, now would be a good time.

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[leora.livejournal.com]

I'm straight! I sometimes am the token straight female in a gathering. I'm poly. I don't consider myself transgendered, but growing up, I didn't feel female and felt like being female was wrong for me. However, I very, very much want to be female. See, I want to get to have a baby, maybe two ro three. And you can't actually carry and have a baby unless you're female. So, I always felt more like a man who wants to be a woman trapped in a female body and quite, quite happy about it. Except, that's wrong too. I don't feel at all like a man. I don't feel male in the slightest. I just don't feel female either.

Which is where I usually give up that line of thinking and just shrug and go, well at least I want to be biologically female and am. And I'm sexually attracted to males and that's simply easier in this society if you're female, so win-win for me.

I don't have very clear ideas on what is feminine or masculine or gender roles. They confuse me, and every so often I try to figure out what they're believed to be in our society, but it doesn't work out well.