gender identity is one of many spectra in the high-dimensional space of gender and gender expression. anyone who tries to narrow that down to a single binary, or even spectrum, is untrustworthy to me and cheating both themselves and other people of the vast diversity of gender.
i identify as a woman and i am attracted largely to women, but what even is a woman? people who identify as women, obviously, but attraction is so much deeper than just that. i am attracted to many traits, some contradictory, which mostly but not exclusively occur in women.
so obviously i have a nuanced and inclusive view of identity. how could you see gender this way and not? and while i call myself a "woman" and a "lesbian," these are not hard laws but approximations based on clusters of traits i am most accurately described by, at least right now
anyone who tries to reduce or restrict my gender or sexual orientation further than this is unwelcome. and anyone who tries to tell me i'm identifying wrong is especially unwelcome and will get blocked. that's all.
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