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identity discussion
my self identity has shifted a lot over the last few years, and I feel like the common narrative would suggest that those changes were all just experiments in search of my "true self", but I don't really feel like that applies, not in my case at least, I genuinely feel like all my past identities were accurate for the time, even though they directly contradict who I am now.
it's not that my labels have been changing to figure out who I am, it's that I have been changing
identity discussion
so while many will describe themselves as having always been trans, and just taking a long time to realise it, I think I genuinely was cis for most of my childhood, but as I have grown into "adult"hood I have changed dramatically, and my gender has grown in complexity to the degree that I now resonate very strongly with my genderqueer identity and feel active discomfort with considering myself male
I don't know who I will be in future, but it doesn't invalidate who I am now