Emily 🏳️‍⚧️ (Recovery Era) on Nostr: Oh you take the box of "womanhood" and then you make that box even tinier and that's ...

Oh you take the box of "womanhood" and then you make that box even tinier and that's where trans women get shoved.

Too feminine? You're a caricature. Not feminine enough? You're not taking it seriously. Womanhood isn't a "whim". You can't just "play act at it".

I mean fuck that SHIT.

And then it starts conflicting, because this person has a different sized box for you to fit in for THEM to be comfortable than THAT person, and you're stuck standing there being pulled in a million directions and blamed for it.

You know one fucking thing I keep slamming into over and over?

I get told I'm "not being authentic/real" when I'm being myself. Because I don't fit into -- whomevers --box.

I don't meet who they think I should be, so I must be "Faking it".

So I slap the mask back on, and act the fucking part, fit into the box she expects. With my own goddamn wife.

Because apparently "geek femme" was not what she expected.