So when I was in high school and absolutely did not know I was trans yet I was part of a after school theater Thing for teenagers where the group would put together their own ideas for short skits which would be about, by and large, social issue shit we cared about. This being statistically one of the most granola boondock rural areas available in the west coast, actually worked and was very fun and was very well attended. My older sister was part of the first performing years of it, I came along 8 years later (shes 8 years older then me).
This is all context to explain that when I came along I realized if I wrote a whole skit script myself it could just Be Performed. In retrospect: Balsy, teen me. All that to say at some point one of those years I wrote
Romeo and Juliet, But Gay, except as most theater groups did we had a ratio of like 3 boys to about 10 girls (myself at the time included) so it then became Romeo and Juliet But About Lesbians.
It also had to be 15 minutes long, and they don't die at the end because I Was A Gay Teenager And Don't Want Them To'. Fair nuff.
And because I wrote it I got to play Tybalt, who in my version found out about what was going on and loyalty stayed by his cousin which is how the ending tragedy got avoided. I've always been a sucker for AU's generated by tweaking which characters know what when, I suppose.
Anyways. So you might have noticed this whole re-write changed some Character Genders. So was I playing Girl Tybalt.
I was, despite writing it myself, playing a male Tybalt. For. Story(?) reasons. Of some kind. And since I was doing that.
Obviously. It made sense to order a binder. From, since this was way before very friendly and trustworthy and fairly affordable binder brands in the states were a thing, Korea. For what I think at the time was 60 fucking dollars. And mind you this is Aughts 60$, and I grew up poor as fucking SHIT and that money definitely represented fucking hours of literal farm work.
........For theater. To play Tybalt.
This would have been Multiple Years before I figured out I was a man.
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