I am now confident in knowing that masculinity and femininity can coexist together.
As someone who was assigned male at birth, I wanted to ensure that I didn’t appear masculine in the ways that I looked An odd enemy to have, you might think. But for the best part of a decade, this wardrobe staple was a no-go zone.
identity. An appreciation of the masculinity that I rejected for 26 years – that is now being welcomed into my experience alongside the feminine.As someone who was assigned male at birth, I wanted to ensure that I didn’t appear masculine in the ways that I looked. Even in the things that I enjoyed doing, or the people that I spent my time with. I wanted to avoid an assumption that I was a man.
This went as far as me rejecting strangers who were men, sports that men enjoyed, even TV programmes and films that were favoured by them. It was me distancing myself away from an identity that I used to inhabit.Being enveloped in the fashion world at just 18 and living as an outin London meant that I was constantly surrounded by femme-presenting people from all walks of life.
the expectations that were set by society on what we should look like became something I found difficult to wrestle free from
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