Now that is interesting and, I think, more positive for the future.
The medication can help you change your appearance but I think it's hard (if not impossible) to get people to believe you are what you are, unless you act in a way they perceive as appropriate to that.
I'm not a fan of imposed gender 'roles' at the best of times but I think it becomes even harder to avoid when you are trying to change people's perceptions of you. But if you are already comfortable in your identity, I hope that will make things a bit easier for you.
I've never really had an issue with the fact that I don't particularly fit the general expectations of my gender or the fact that a lot of people don't quite know where to put me. But I imagine that is must be excruciatingly draining for those who are being denied the right to their identity, by others (consciously or unconsciously).
Anyway, it seems that things are still heading up for you and I'm very pleased to hear that. :)
Curiously, in some of them you seem more female to me and, in others, definitely male. I can quite put my finger on the reason for it, though! Have they been taken at different times, before and after you started T or only after or only before?
haha, you make me laugh - in a good way. all the pics are chronological (most recent first etc). i started T in feb. i dont know what it is about my gender coding in them either. but im at a point where im happy to embrace both genders and none, if you know what i mean. ever since studying gender studies at ANU, ive been interested in gender roles and societies labelling; im interested in watching it and sometimes subverted it! grin. on the other hand - i, like most people, want to fit in and be liked by my peers. i think though this will come more from me liking myself now, rather than fitting in because im the "right" gender.
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The medication can help you change your appearance but I think it's hard (if not impossible) to get people to believe you are what you are, unless you act in a way they perceive as appropriate to that.
I'm not a fan of imposed gender 'roles' at the best of times but I think it becomes even harder to avoid when you are trying to change people's perceptions of you. But if you are already comfortable in your identity, I hope that will make things a bit easier for you.
I've never really had an issue with the fact that I don't particularly fit the general expectations of my gender or the fact that a lot of people don't quite know where to put me. But I imagine that is must be excruciatingly draining for those who are being denied the right to their identity, by others (consciously or unconsciously).
Anyway, it seems that things are still heading up for you and I'm very pleased to hear that. :)
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Curiously, in some of them you seem more female to me and, in others, definitely male.
I can quite put my finger on the reason for it, though!
Have they been taken at different times, before and after you started T or only after or only before?
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*sigh*
I'll stop bothering you now. ;D
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i dont know what it is about my gender coding in them either. but im at a point where im happy to embrace both genders and none, if you know what i mean.
ever since studying gender studies at ANU, ive been interested in gender roles and societies labelling; im interested in watching it and sometimes subverted it! grin.
on the other hand - i, like most people, want to fit in and be liked by my peers. i think though this will come more from me liking myself now, rather than fitting in because im the "right" gender.
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