I'm really grateful to the trans people who openly refer to their pre-transition self as a different gender because it's helped me recognize the many different genders I've embodied throughout my life. I've been a little boy. I've been a weird kid. I've been a teenage girl. I've been a transmasc. These days I feel most accurately described as Butch.
Maybe someday I will find a new gender. If I do, it won't be too scary because I'm allowed to carry all my former identities with me, I don't have to throw them away. I can go through them like an old photo album and remember what it was like to be them, and thank them for carrying me to where I am now.




















