“To me, being masculine-of-center means boyishness, it means blurring gender lines, it means a more vulnerable and delicate form of masculinity. It gives me the freedom to not fulfill expectations…
“Over the last year and a half, I went from my trans identity being something I was in touch with and worked through in one way or another, to suddenly…
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