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[โ€“] Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

As someone who grew up as an "effeminate boy" in the 90s and knew of nothing "queer" outside of the basic LGB and the full MtF and FtM versions of T, seeing this kind of talk in like actual articles is still so wild. I still feel like I'm in some kind of bizzaro world. I didn't figure out nonbinary was a thing you could even be until my mid twenties.

Like I go from spending my entire childhood getting bullied and beaten and told to "man up" and that I'm too much of a "girly boy" who should have just been a girl until I hit puberty and my build more resembles a refrigerator cosplaying Bigfoot and most of the bullies become too scared to find out if I know how to throw a punch. To now there's people straight up just saying that boys should be allowed to be "effeminate" without being told they're actually just trans girls? Like I'm happy don't get me wrong, but this feels so strange y'know? If you'd have told 12 year old me about this, they'd have thought you were talking about some far off fantasy world that could never happen. And it's still so rough out here for us!

[โ€“] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

not long before "efeminate" loses all meaning ๐Ÿค˜

Here's hoping <3 I'm so tired of pointlessly gendered BS...

[โ€“] glimse@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I'm a physically masculine straight guy who never cared about boy vs girl hobbies and spent most of my childhood having everyone think I was gay. I liked the color pink and puppies and collecting stickers

I met my first trans person in college but it wasn't until it became a political talking point years later that I really reflected on my youth. I was left with some uncomfortable feelings about what might have happened if I was born 20 years later. I am not trans but would I have talked myself into thinking I was a girl? I was impressionable as hell and also online.