One day you'll see me for who I am, not not what I look like to you.

This entry is kind of an assortment of things, but since they're all more or less the same topic, I think I'll just go with it.

I got this from Genderqueer on Tumblr.



I'd be interested in watching the entire film.

I also saw a post on tumblr yesterday that said "I hope some day my parents are going to tell me how proud they are of their son."

My parents both tell me, on occasion, that they are proud of me. But my dad doesn't actually know about my gender identity, which is my fault for being a chicken. My mom is resistant to it, although she's working on accepting it.

But someday, I want them to both think this way.

I am proud of my son.

The other thing I wanted to talk about is, again, something found on tumblr.

I saw someone talking about gender swaps in fanfiction. I actually can't stand most fics like that, but that's really not the issue.

The conversation included something about how boys are not boys unless they have penises.

You know what? That ideology is a huge part of what is wrong with the way our society views gender. Gender is between your ears, not your legs. A man in a body that is perceived as female is still a man.

I know they didn't even mean anything offensive by it, and I'm pretty sure that very few of my internet friends outside livejournal and this blog have any idea what my views on the subject are. But that doesn't change the underlying issue.

I've talked, previously, about how my body is a male body regardless of how other people are trying to label it. That doesn't change the fact that, hey, I don't have a penis! I'm probably never going to have the genital surgery that many transmen have, because from what I understand about it, it's a little inadequate, and it's not something I think will work out for me. SO I am never going to have a penis.

But I am always going to be a boy.

Food for thought, I suppose.