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Short hair, gender expression and I'm confused

Discussion in 'Gender Identity and Expression' started by UmaMae, Dec 9, 2020.

  1. UmaMae

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    Hi people..

    OK so, I might be confused about my gender. I have a lot of issues and I started questioning my feelings.

    I don't even know how to put it. Sometimes I am super ok with being a woman. I feel confident, like my body, long hair, so a normal cis experience.

    But then... Sometimes a feeling sneaks in, that I want to cut my hair short, I feel a strong discomfort with my chest and I'd like to dress much more masculine. In that moments I feel comfortable with gender neutral pronouns (in some moments I even feel 100 % like a man)

    And then... It just goes away. Wth?? I feel like both is part of who I am, but I'm not sure. I try to figure out if it's internalized misogyny, or body dysmorphia, or temporal (?) dysphoria? Or trauma response. I don't know honestly. It's just that my gender is not so... Fix as I would assume.

    I know that no one can hand me a label and tell me, this is you. But maybe... Thoughts?
     
  2. Andrew7

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    Have you tried embracing your feelings more towards feeling like a man, such as the way you dress. It might help you discover more on how you feel about it.
     
  3. Suitsme

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    I was like this when I was younger (I’m born female) and as I’ve got older I’ve gone more and more masculine.

    I have no idea what my label is and I gave up searching. In an ideal word I would be male. It’s easier to say I’m non binary though if I have to pick a gender.

    My inner voice is male.
     
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    @Andrew7 yes I tried, but I don't feel like a man as a whole. Imagining people calling me sir doesn't feel right at all.

    I think a label that might fit me is genderfluid. At times I'm 100%ok with my femininity, at others I experience a weird feeling towards my chest. It ebbs and flows. Also I like to go into a more masc or gnc way of gender expression. And see what that does to my inner feeling. Maybe it's that I don't like to express myself in a overly feminine way any more?

    There are more aspects to it... It's gender expression at one point and sometimes an inner feeling of not liking my chest or body as a whole. Don't know if it's dismorphia or dysphoria though. I find it really difficult to distinguish between the two.

    Maybe I lean more towards a stud or butchy self expression inside of the female spectrum. I don't know yet. Genderfluid feels ok. Also she and they pronouns
     
  5. Suitsme

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    Sounds like gender fluid ...

    sometimes I’m happy to be the soft butch female so maybe I’m gender fluid too! I always go towards masculinity rather than femininity though
     
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