EJ Penn’s Reviews > Gender Queer: A Memoir > Status Update

Sure it’s very helpful for some to understand their feelings of their own gender thru hormones and chromosomes and genes, but the whole “you could have male genitalia and a female brain” is far to rigid for me. Makes me feel like I have to pick some combination of the gender binary to exist in, to explain myself thru— feels limiting

This section on the development of genitals and brains in foetuses is making me uncomfortable. I’m feeling annoyed at understandings of gender being strictly tied to biological goings on, as if that’s the only way to validate gender diversity n stuff. And I just don’t think that’s the case for a lot of us...

“AUTOANDROPHILA: Regrrs to a person assigned female at birth who is sexually aroused at the thought or image of having male genitalia or being a man.

“Wow. I never knew there was a word for that.

“For me.”

xO saaaame!!!

Oooff— too close to home on this one xD

The whole “if I was born male o would play with this stuff everyday” (makeup, jewellery, dresses, skirts, sparkles, florals, etc)

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“I’M DONE THINKING ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS. Also dating and crushes. It’s all equally irritating and boring. I’ve got other stuff to focus on.
“Friendship is NINE THOUSAND TIMES better than romance!”

This is amazing so far. Beautiful draws and colours and compositions. Yay!!