Published on 12, July, 2020
A discussion in this forum made me ask myself this question, what's gender?. I googled it but what I found there didn't make much sense to me. I always thought that the gender of the other person doesn't tell me much about who they are. It just informs me about the appropriate pronouns that this person wants me to use with them. Frankly I don't care about figuring out my gender. I was born in a woman's body and I never felt like it's the wrong one. I think I'd feel the same if I was born in a man's body. I have never spent time thinking about this part of myself because I never thought that it's important enough to me. I'll be the same person anyway, no? I don't think it would change much about who I am... Can anyone share how they understand gender?
I am female but I don't really have a concept of gender. Maybe that would make me technically non-binary but I don't think of it like that. I just think, I'm a person who happens to have female anatomy.
I usually dress in a gender-neutral way. Sometimes I'll wear a dress on special occasions because that's what's expected, and I don't have a problem with that.
I'm glad that where I live, being female doesn't prevent me from accessing opportunities and it's quite normal for women to dress in a neutral/masuline way if we want to.