Article About Gender and Assimilation

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I relate to so much of this. Especially about wanting to deconstruct the way society sees the gender binary, which I see as fundamentally harmful to a lot of people, while simultaneously trying to assimilate into it.

This is also about the danger that gender non-conforming people face in society, and the danger they put themselves in by refusing to assimilate, and the author's struggle with all of this.

Today I went to a thrift store. I didn't put my hair up with the new doo-dad that Miriam taught me how to use, even though the euphoria of my hair looking like that is so amazing. But I don't pass, and right now I just don't have whatever it is that people have who don't care what other people think about their gender and/or who actively want to publicly redefine gender. I wish I did. Today the fear was too much.

There's a lot here. I hope you read it, if any of this means anything to you.

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2020/2/12/21075683/trans-coming-out-cost-of-womanhood-pink-tax?fbclid=IwAR3XhKs-ya-4o2CJCMMHYvaFVIjFLizZoy8vscC7fIlqQjGlxvUItu4z7L4