Vanessa:heart_ace:
This body isn't cis, but I feel cis. I don't share in the experiences of Eliza. Eliza has to keep reminding me this body is trans.
If I get my own body someday, I doubt I'd identify as trans, because I'd be a fraud. I've been a woman as long as I've existed.
This in no way invalidates trans folk. I am definitely not transphobic (how could I be, my host is trans!). I just don't share in that experience of changing gender, changing who I am, etc. Those are all Eliza's memories, experienced through their perspective, not mine.
@vanessalynne
Tohri: And I have a hard time thinking of myself as Trans. That gender binary gets in the way for me, I'm really Both. I've kinda had to be.
There's really not much room in polite society for anyone who's not sensitive, open and Kind.
So I suppose getting raised as a girl wasn't Bad, just really embarrassing for ten years after puberty.
@Motodrachen Being both or neither is completely valid! My host is agender, but also a trans femme.
(Sorry, I just saw your reply to this)