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Community Conversation => Transgender talk => Topic started by: Anthropos on April 25, 2012, 12:11:02 AM

Title: What songs helped you come to terms with your gender identity?
Post by: Anthropos on April 25, 2012, 12:11:02 AM
For me and I think most people, music plays a huge role in my emotional life. There's always a song I can name to really show what it was like to go through a particular emotional crisis, life stage, etc. This certainly holds true for my realizations about my androgynous gender identity.

When I was in high school, I was at a state debate tournament in a giant auditorium waiting for results with about 100 other debators. To keep us entertained, they put on the Disney classic "Mulan" and suddenly this song came on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scLvq9CKdLU&feature=related

I immediately had to retreat to a private corner of the school. Something I had stuffed down into myself and prayed to G-d had died resurfaced. To this day, this song serves as a memento of exactly what I suffered through in middle/high school and most of college.
Title: Re: What songs helped you come to terms with your gender identity?
Post by: Christopher_Marius on April 25, 2012, 04:06:12 PM
"Reflection", or "Zi Ji" as it's called in Chinese ("Zi Ji" means "Myself").

The English version is more commonly known as the theme from Mulan.