Gender is such a fun game, Isn't it?
I remember as a kid I would play Wizard101 and in the beginning before creating a new
Character, you must establish if you were a
Boy.. Or a Girl.
I had one female wizard, and one boy wizard and in my mind, that was okay until
I showed my heavily religious grandparent the game.
She asked me why there was one boy character, and one girl character.
I told her it was my friends and she smiled, as if she were relieved.
The next sentence that spilled from her old ancient lips made me almost cry.
She smoothed her khakis and said
I was afraid you would say that they were both you, because you should only have a girl character.
And no, Oma, it was not my friend's character because in my mind, I wanted to be that boy character.
In my mind, I wanted to be that female character as well.
When I was Thirteen, I got a plaid shirt for Christmas. I put it on and my friends said
It made me look like a lesbian.
And only one of my friends said it looked good on me.
At that time, I was declaring myself "bisexual" finding both girls and guys
to be very attractive.
My favourite viner was a neutrois and I thought this was normal.
In fact, I wanted to cut my hair short and wear guy-ish clothes for a longtime.
So many people have told me that I must identify as "boy" or "male"
Or ****, even "girl" and "female"
Well guess what.
I'm worth more than a ******* "Other" button.
So are other people.
People, humans.
That's what we are, isn't it?