I'm not sure if the forum policies have changed given recent world events relating to non-heterosexuality, however, I guess I'll just talk about this. <!-- s

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I've heard that the term "queer" is still used as pejorative in other parts of the world (particularly the U.K.), but I'm using it in the U.S. reclaimed sense here, particularly since there seems to be a thriving queer community where I'm at (though I've just recently been reintroduced to it), and because there really is no synonym which really expresses what "queer" culture has become in the 21st c. U.S., particularly given the inclusivity of the term. The term "genderqueer" relates to someone who "queers" gender (instead of being just not-heterosexual), and this gets into all kinds of great areas, of which androgyny is only the most easily recognizable one.
So I have been a couple of places recently...well, three to be exact. At one of them I ran across someone who I'm pretty sure was otherkin, though I didn't stick around to display my own colors, as it were. Then there was a different group I was in where I felt a bit uncomfortable, as it was completely new and also outright queer space, and I'm used to genderqueer and trans spaces. But they were very good at being sensitive to the fact that one's body and outward appearance doesn't determine one's identity. I may have met a future friend there. <!-- s

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I've realized that, since I don't plan on physically transitioning from female to male, being in a space where basically everyone else is physically transitioning may not be the place where my needs are best served. I now know one place I can go to meet people which is outside of my old community hangout, and that should be fairly awesome. And then there is the old hangout, and maybe, maybe (!) work. I haven't really been around to meet people who are older and of a gender I am attracted to and queer...but I mean dude, I...was really attracted to this person! I may start working Saturdays normally, just in hopes of running across them again! ^_^
*sighs* I didn't know until recently, either, how much of my sexual identity was based around not wanting to get pregnant. I mean, female people are safe, you know; you aren't going to get a baby in you from someone who doesn't have the equipment to really *do that*. But since I've started birth control, I've noticed that my walls are coming down as regards being freaked out about theoretical unintentional children. This is to the point that I can now actually seriously consider being with a fertile male, and consider having children (when it is my choice and not someone else's). But given what's happened, I think I may still prefer female people -- at least I know they already may be educated on key points of gender identity and presentation. I'm not sure, but the person I met today was blurring gender so much that they were coming off as masculine/female as versus me, where I was more androgynous/female (and glad I have not altered my body!). m^_^m They really reminded me of the first guy I fell in love at, who was a transgender man...particularly with the eye contact.
*muffled squees* *rolls around* (I know this person is not him, you know, but really.really.cute.)
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