I got called "SIR" today when we were at 7-11!!!
[in the phrase, "sir you forgot the croissant" but that had already been paid for.]
YAY!!!!!
And I bought some more briefs [<3] and a cheap shirt-and a tanktop/bra thing I'm going to be using to bind. though it's bright pink and I figure it's a happy color that it'll lessen some stuff.
Except we were in IKEA and someone kept calling her name. Yeah it took me like 5 minutes before I realized she was talking to me.
And then I got this question in my Formspring:
"Why are you conflating socially constructed gender and biological gender? Does being a trans-man entail doing "manly" things, or does it entail existing as a biological male?" What. The. Fuck. does that even mean? Urgh and I have no idea how to answer it and actually i do have a way to answer it.
By doing "manly" things [though I'm still not sure what you mean by that] I am helping to ensure that I am seen as a cis*male-p.s. that phrase? Kinda offensive.
I am also curious as to how exactly I am conflating [bringing together] socially constructed gender [*eyeroll*] and biologicalgender I really don't think gender is the word they want there. [Most of my status updates on FB regarding transition have been 1)the times people have called me "sir", b)working out stuff id est "50 chest presses! Yay!", or c) quotes from Whipping Girl and What Becomes You and various other places I find online.
[in the phrase, "sir you forgot the croissant" but that had already been paid for.]
YAY!!!!!
And I bought some more briefs [<3] and a cheap shirt-and a tanktop/bra thing I'm going to be using to bind. though it's bright pink and I figure it's a happy color that it'll lessen some stuff.
Except we were in IKEA and someone kept calling her name. Yeah it took me like 5 minutes before I realized she was talking to me.
And then I got this question in my Formspring:
"Why are you conflating socially constructed gender and biological gender? Does being a trans-man entail doing "manly" things, or does it entail existing as a biological male?" What. The. Fuck. does that even mean? Urgh and I have no idea how to answer it and actually i do have a way to answer it.
By doing "manly" things [though I'm still not sure what you mean by that] I am helping to ensure that I am seen as a cis*male-p.s. that phrase? Kinda offensive.
I am also curious as to how exactly I am conflating [bringing together] socially constructed gender [*eyeroll*] and biological