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Post A Reply Login Name: Password: Message Icon:                                                                       Message: HTML is not enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled. UBB Code™ Images not permitted. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Molias: [QB] One thing that's been really helpful to me in sorting out my gender identity (and various facets of my own identity, honestly) is realizing that it's [i]completely ok[/i] for things to be a little nebulous or uncertain. There's a lot of comfort that can come from finding a word for an identity that fits with your personal identity and experience, but if you go down a huge list of identities and say "ok, this doesn't quite fit, this is close but not exactly me..." it can feel pretty alienating. I do think identifying as "JUST ME!" can be a great way around that, because ultimately that's the most important thing, I think, is to have a strong sense of yourself no matter what label that falls under. I do think it can be super-helpful to claim a label that works for you too; I certainly don't want to discount that. Also, in my quest to find a good gender identity word (now I usually just say I have a "gender paragraph") I used to say "amoeba" or "jellyfish" when I was at a trans support group and they had us talk about our gender identities during check-in. It was kind of flippant but also in a way a lot more authentic-feeling for me. [/QB][/QUOTE]

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