Well hello from Australia.
Lily, I guess is the intended 'out name'. However, I'm pretty easy going about these things, and also answer to Sam, or the always helpful "Hey You." I'm 21, assigned male at birth, and I study literature in university.
I'm not entirely sure what I can say on this subject. I'm sure if there is a 'textbook case' I fit more than a few of the criteria. Absentee father, overbearing mother. Subject of bullying and ridicule, made worse by my 'wise' decision to come out as bisexual. By the end of my multiple stints at various primary and high schools I'd have two or three friends left, and pretty much entirely female.
My literary background, I feel, has perhaps taken a bit of a toll on my gender identity. I lack a solid social development in any gender role. Tried male, felt ridiculous. Trying female, feeling pretty ridiculous. But in comparison, I'm certainly more comfortable. It 'works'. While I would prefer to be a sixteen foot tall mechnical tiki arachnoid, given present technology feminine secondary characteristics is more aesthetically and psychologically pleasant.
I think this made sense, but I'm mid-way through several assessments and it's nearing 2AM.
