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Maple's Thoughts

A 27 Sided Dice

2/13/2016

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See, when I was 10, my mother told me that boys do boy things and girls do girl things. Boy things such as bulldozing, carpentry and girl things like cooking and cleaning. I rejected this quite early on.

Why couldn't a boy do girl things? Does it have to be it that way?

I spent the next bunch of years trying to figure out an answer. Around this time, someone suggested that there were not 2 genders but 27 (or 26 if you prefer).

I could see the value in this mindest, of 27 individual gender identities, the idea seemed very appealing, but somehow I still felt confused.

It was still labeling, a less insidious labeling then 2 genders society wants to oppose, but still labeling.

So I said screw it. No more genders. My mindset changed to "there is no boy, no girl" because gender IMO doesn't exist.

A sigh of relief. I now understood gender, I now understood myself.




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A Link to Myself

2/11/2016

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I have arecurring experiment where I post videos about trans issues, my life and journalism shorts on Youtube.
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    Miss Maple is the alter ego of Squidge.

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