This has been a long process of unfolding for me. I remain open to all possibilities as I dance through the process. GenderQueer/Non-Binary/TransFemme He/She/Them Age : 68 Location : Nevada City, CA
Becca
I have very clear memories of being little and believing I was a boy, and that my parents raised me as a girl because they wanted me to be a girl so badly. So I’ve continued doing traditionally feminine things – I love ballet, I think makeup is fascinating and weird, and dresses are usually…
Dana Morrigan
I started calling myself a hippie pretty soon after thousands of them invaded my small town to attend the Woodstock Festival, when I was ten. They talked about peace and freedom, and they were peaceful and free! They did things in public that I was afraid to do even in private. They also lived in…
Athena
Growing up I considered myself male-adjacent (what might now be called a demi boy). Eventually I gave that up for genderqueer, which is something I still identify with. I have complimented that with a few other off-the-rack gender descriptions: non-binary, gender fluid, and trans woman. However, I feel like a bespoke gender is the best…
Kel
I was a girly tomboy theater kid all through my childhood and teenage years, which in many ways foreshadowed my identity now. I loved the aesthetics of stereotypical femininity- heels, lipstick, pink, glitter- but felt resentful at best towards many aspects of womanhood. I came out as a queer cis woman in my early 20s…
Nikita
I’m still on my journey and I’m a turtle. Lol Genderqueer pan unitato He, She, They, Turtle Age : 14
Rocco
My gender journey is continuous and never ending. Here I am in my current iteration. My one guarantee is that I will change again. Down with the binary, you can’t make me choose. Trans non-binary gender traitor beefcake savory sweet stud muffin Genderqueer, They/Them Age : 37 Oakland, CA @bayanrootsoakland
Freddie
My relationship to gender is fluid — constantly evolving, shifting, and interacting with my environment. I’m lucky to have experienced relatively little body dysmorphia, so sometimes I think about how my decisions to alter my body and self are connected to how the world I’m in perceives me and treats me. I am in a…
Rose
These days I’ve been joking (not joking) That my gender is that of a 14 year old goth lost boy All awkwardness and new angles Somehow too big and too small and still too femme or not Fag enough It’s messy There never seem to be the “right words” And who I am gets caught…
Jo-El
Having been raised mormon, my early life journey was incredibly limited to the gender binary. I am grateful to have broken out of that conservative box as a young adult “Who was I now—woman or man? That question could never be answered as long as those were the only choices; it could never be answered…