2 months ago
Brig Newspaper
If you don’t feel like you fit into the gender you were assigned at birth, nobody can stop you from calling yourself trans and you will be welcomed into trans spaces and communities. For the most part, trans communities are so aware of the difficulties faced by trans people that they can get very protective of people on their own journey of discovery. Remember though, that there are as many ways to be trans as there are trans peopleIn our society, particularly here in the UK, being trans is desperately misunderstood by the majority of people and there is a huge amount of misinformation about what it means to be trans out there – unless you know where to look, the bad press can often outweigh the good. So it stands to reason that if you are interrogating your own gender, you might be confused and worried, feeling “not trans enough” for trans people but not cisnormative enough for society at large. If you are a trans woman who loves to wear pink and has a thousand skirts and wears makeup, you are trans enough.
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