People treat me as a brother, a guy, one of the boys, another man, the identity that (normally) goes with a male body. What’s the pronoun most commonly used for a male girl?I do get misappraised quite often. Here we are, all woke and conscious and liberated from the gender binary and all that it evokes, and yet we still posit that one syllable is sufficient to designate our sex and our gender, regardless of the combination thereof. Get used to it.So, pronouns, huh? You want the pronouns that would appropriately reference my gender, or the pronouns that would designate my sex?Yeah, exactly. You see, the body I was born in isn’t wrong, and the historical fact of being perceived and treated by others as a male is a lifelong part of who I am, and I have no wish to discard it. Later, I was repeatedly invited to transition or to present as female, so that I would not get misgendered, but the price of not getting misgendered was to be mis-SEXED. I was pressured to adopt and embrace masculinity, to become one of the boys, all throughout childhood, but I wasn’t so inclined. I was born with a physical configuration that was assigned the value ‘male’, and I’ve always been one of the girls from as far back as I can remember. It’s a respectful and appropriate question.
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