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Gender Politics
I want to say this: I am a cisgendered, (at least) bisexual man. Gender politics is mildly important to me — I’m not transgendered or even questioning of my gender. In that I am lucky.
But the most valuable thing I got from reading and being with people who really care about gender politics is this: No one gets to define what it means to be your gender,except for you. You define what it is, and what it means, and how it is.
When I accepted that, I worried less about my manhood, or appearing silly or effeminate. It doesn’t matter. I am a man, and that means exactly what I mean it means.
It’s freedom, just like this man says here:
