Quote from: Terence on April 08, 2017, 12:22:19 AM
In my early teens, I thought I was a lesbian. By mid-high school I'd found out I was bisexual. These days I'm mostly attracted to men. It's strange how these things change as you grow older. You would've thought that finding out I was male would have skewed my attraction more towards women, but it didn't work that way for me.

This is pretty similar to how my orientation evolved. Before I had heard of transgender, I identified as a lesbian for awhile in high school, though I never dated any girls (or anybody for that matter). Once I got to college and having to live in the dorm with women and started to realize I was trans, I was kind of turned off by anything or anyone female. As I've come to become comfortable that my gender identity is not as binary as I initial thought, I've become more open to women again. Currently I identify as pansexual with a preference for men.

My sexuality is also driven a lot by fandom, fictional characters, and shipping. For example, the series Legend of Korra, with all of its strong female characters, contributed to me being interesting in women again.

I grew up frequently being accused of being gay.  I definitely feel the "men are gross" thing and have no interest in or attraction to masculinity at all.  Figuring out that I was a lesbian woman was a little extra difficult, because I had never heard of someone being born as a straight male and then transitioning into a lesbian female.  Had I known it was possible, I would have been aware of myself sooner.  It does make sense that in a lot of my past romantic relationships I was referred to as "the girl in the relationship" even when I was presenting as male.

I recently determined that even though I am attracted to women, I am actually asexual.