oh dear god i have way too many feelings about gottmik dragrace. this is the first time i’ve felt fully represented by someone on tv.
i am a transmasc person with a femme/androgynous side. that femininity is not the femininity of a woman but the femininity of a queer man. think drag queen. i’m a drag artist to my core.
from the inside, that “femininity” doesn’t feel womanly. it feels very draggy and very queer. but to the world, because of the way my AFAB body looks, it just reads as “woman.” and that is the greatest source of my dysphoria.
society—even queer society—forces trans people so heavily into gender roles. trans women have to pass and perform “traditional” femininity to a T to be seen as valid, nonbinary people are seen as fake if they’re not the perfect 50/50 mix of masc and femme, and the same goes for trans men and masculinity. as soon as a trans person is too far out of the box they get labeled as “not a real man/woman/etc” or “just confused.”
i’m a dancer, a singer, a performer. i love makeup and fashion. i’m not a woman in any sense, but performing traditional masculinity just isn’t always authentic for me. i sometimes feel like i have to be someone i’m not to be seen as the gender i am. and drag is a a refuge from that. i didn’t know true gender euphoria until i saw myself in full drag the first time. i almost cried (but u know u gotta save the 2 hours of alien bitch makeup. i’ll cry after the show lmao)
being a GNC trans person is a trip. and gottmik gets it. when she talked about her gender journey on drag race i felt seen and represented for the first time.
let trans people be GNC. we don’t need to fit in your box to be real.
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