Andrea Tvilling 🙃🏳️‍⚧️🌈🌻🇺🇦🇪🇺

Oliver & Olivia by Korin Hunjak

Self Portrait

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my gender fluidity came after I came to myself, on 50+ year of my life. first it was like “am I trans? wait, what?”, but very soon it clicked like a key in a keyhole, and locked in the slot. and then came trans fluidity — some days and weeks I suffer from dysphoria, and other days I continue in my assigned at birth everything, “as if it’s normal”. Life turned into pendulum swings I can’t predict…

but as Columbo said across his character, “oh, there is one more thing”. Finnish language has no sex implied — everybody is hän and there is no she or he. Leave alone, there is no sex embedded in cases and rest of language cf. Spanish. English has she/he, but it’s generally still neutral. But my childhood language has it all — if I talk about myself as woman, all verbs and adjectives and everything else is in feminine form. And it brings me joy and happiness.