As I’ve grown into adulthood, I’ve found my connection to my gender become such an indescribable thing. I am so full of gender - the pride and power some women feel in screaming “I am a woman” is the same feeling I get about my own gender, even if I can’t exactly name it.
This is what I mean when I say I’m 3rd Gender (not something I say offline cause that’s a weird sentence grammatically to say out loud) I mean that my gender is so concrete, so solid in my own mind, but in a way that is neither male nor female.
I know there are cultural specific third gender (Hijras and Muxes come to mind) - but as a White™️ person whose closest connection to “culture” is being raised Catholic & southern, I don’t have a cultural label I can grasp.
Despite my best wishes, I don’t think there will ever be a singular word that feels correct to me, maybe one day I’ll invent one, but now 3rd Gender will have to do.














