CW: Genitals, transphobia 

I once had a (former) friend tell me that he thought having a dick was what determined if you were a guy or not.

"I know plenty of girls with dicks," I pointed out.

"Oh, sure, a girl can have a dick. But it's *having one* that determines if you're a guy. You can't have a vagina and be a guy."

And intellectually I know he's wrong but sometimes I get inside my own head and think this way, and it makes me feel like I can't ever be a guy without one.

CW: Genitals, transphobia 

Anyway, will someone please remind me that it's okay to be a person who doesn't have a dick? And that I'm still possibly attractive without one?

I'm not 100% guy (I consider myself to be 2/3 male, 1/3 female) but even so.

CW: Genitals, transphobia 

@Sparrow you get to be a guy even if you feel you are only 2/3 a guy even if you don't have the junk for it

People do not get to define you, you get to own that. It's 2018 and societal gender norms are only used as a societal tool of oppression imo

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