• Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Sounds like the most thought out response. I sometimes wonder how many cis folk are cis because they have a gender identity solidly planted in the cultural and phenotypic sex of their body and how many are cis because they really don’t have a strong underlying preference so whatever their body is it would not cause them any real discomforts.

    I definitely know folk who I suspect fit both of these models. Those cis folk who experience gender euphoria are sometimes not very subtle about it.

    • Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com
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      1 year ago

      I believe I’m the latter in this unauthorized and unofficial poll.

      I’m a lot more attached to my sexuality than my gender. I am definitely attracted to women. I am a man because it’s more convenient for me to be a man however. I have thought about whether I’m NB due to my indifference, but then I rethink my thoughts and notice

      I am a man […]

      and just decide to stop there, I don’t have to care about the “because”. I’m a keep it simple stupid kinda person.

    • Bizarroland@kbin.social
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      That’s an interesting thought.

      Back when I was five or seven if I suddenly one day woke up as a girl I probably would have had a massive panic attack and freaked out for a day and after some therapy and time to process I would have just been like, “oh okay well I guess I’m a girl now”.

      Nowadays other than the fact that it would cause ripple effects throughout my life that I can’t even possibly predict, i wouldn’t even care that much. Oh shit, dick fell off.