experienciasdefede: 1- They say identity is a construct , which leaves me thinking… 2-Because I didn
experienciasdefede: 1- They say identity is a construct , which leaves me thinking… 2-Because I didn’t choose or construct this part of myself, my gender identity 3-I was raised up as a woman and everyone treated me like that 4- And I really tried to make myself a woman, feel like, be one 5- But the only thing I archived was to make myself hurt a lot 6- Which leads me to think that there are parts of our identity that are not constructed, they born with us 7-They simply ARE, without much explanations 8- The only thing we can choose about them is to explore, expres and develop them, or not 9- But when repressing a part so essential of yourself destroys you from the inside… 10- How much of a choice there is really? -- source link