I'm happy now: learning to live being genderqueer

[stephaniec]

http://www.basicrights.org/featured/im-happy-now-learning-to-live-being-genderqueer/

[suzifrommd]

An excerpt to give an idea of what this article is about:

Being genderqueer has allowed me to liberate myself in the way I dress, talk and act; it has given me the freedom to live. In a world where we are defined by the labels we carry, I have chosen to be myself and to work towards a point where I don't let other people define me. Because I have liberated myself and have begun to define myself, I have arrived at a time in my life where I am, overall, pretty happy. It takes time for people to change the ideas that have been ingrained in them since birth. But my identity, and the act of talking with my loved ones about it, has allowed the people in my life a chance to open their minds to new things. Even if all of this takes a while, I'll keep living my truth, because there's no turning back now.

I like this article. I long since rejected the idea of living genderqueer because of the very things mentioned here - that basically no one understands.