Would it be weird if I moved my "birthday" to a different month for gender reasons? Not legally of course, but in terms of when I try to celebrate.

People talk about it being my "name day", but that refers to a name I haven't even been called in years. My birthday being in December always means I'm utterly exhausted from end-of-year deadlines, seasonal depression is settling in, and I'm stressed about all the social ramifications of the following few weeks.

Meanwhile June contains the anniversaries of my first big coming out, me starting T, me getting top surgery... June 2020 felt like the month my life stopped being a constant cycle of worrying about gender shit, and instead started being just life. Just full and authentic life.

I feel like that's much more worth celebrating than 25 or so odd years of a life not truly lived, pretending to be someone I'm not.