Description: A three panel comic. In the first picture a caption says “As a cis person, you have to try really hard to be your assigned gender.” A smiling stick figure responds with “OK.” In the second picture a caption says “As a trans person, you have to try really hard to be your true gender.” The same smiling stick figure responds with “OK.” once more. In the last picture the caption says “What if you let go instead?” The stick figure stares with eyes wide open.
This one made a serious crack in my egg back in the day.
As the psychologists love to say: “You cannot have no behavior”, because even completely passive behavior is still behavior. Identity is the same way. But semantics aside, I definitely agree that people should get as weird as they please.
there’s a difference between “i identify as” and “other people perceive me as”
fuck other people. stop perceiving me.