*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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You know there's something wrong with your gender when you get valentines from girls.

[prezzey.livejournal.com]

I'm a heterosexual woman but I am often mistaken for a male or a male-to-female transsexual(!!). The latter must be because I look male but I wear long skirts. I guess there must have been a tad too much of that prenatal testosterone stuff *shrug* (There is other evidence that points toward that, in fact.) When I started keeping tznius (umm Orthodox Jewish dress code) I thought, "now there's no way people would think I was a boy, not in a skirt!". No. Now they assume I'm a transsexual instead. Ha. Maybe I should paint my mouth bright sparkling red? But 1. I hate that stuff 2. it's not too tznius either 3. I'd look like a stereotypical drag queen instead of looking like a plain vanilla woman.