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Honestly it's fine. I appreciate the advice. I just feel that I'm middle aged and have had a lot if time to think over if I feel like I'm a woman. I don't feel especially drawn to being a woman, although being male is very ehh honestly.
Being the ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ gender is a valid choice. You know who you are, and that's cool. And if who you are changes, that's cool. You are still you, and people who love you will support you.
A lot of people don't know this but building a custom gender is real cheap and easy. I did it in my back yard with some old wooden pallets.
i don't really resonate with the egg-crack language b/c it feels very binary trans centric to me (maybe that's just internalized phobia though, i really don't know), but it took me a while to realize cis men and cis women don't generally feel indifferent toward masculinity and femininity respectively, and that made me consider whether i might be on the agender spectrum. it's just something to consider - honestly, when you get into the realm of "very gender-nonconforming cis guy" and "some flavor of enby," the line gets kind of murky and arbitrary (in a freeing - not minimizing - kind of way, in that gender can really be whatever Feels Right). to elaborate, someone in this thread already brought up how being cis-but-gay opens up so, so much more variance in socially acceptable gender expression, and a lot of more outwardly queer gay dudes are probably more nonconforming than I am and are comfortable at "he/him" whereas I'm not, so there truly is a very vibes-based, it-is-what-you-feel dimension to all this.
i do think immediately saying "hehe eggposting" isn't very respectful of your individual journey and falls into the trap a lot of queer people do where they project their personal self discovery process onto others as some universal roadmap, and can lean into gender essentialist bullshit. i've also never been a fan of the "cis people don't think about gender, if you're thinking about it a lot you're trans" line because, while it may contain a grain of truth, i think everyone should be encouraged to think about gender intentionally. e.g., you really think a super cishet gymbro isn't chasing some version of gender euphoria trying to get swole?? (also, certain anxiety disorders cause you to obsessively interrogate questions of identity even if the experiences of those identities clearly don't line up with your personal experience (iykyk))