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My mother told me this morning that while she did have an ultrasound while pregnant with me, they wouldn& #39;t tell her my sex by policy back then. So I asked how anyone knew I& #39;m male and apparently it was in fact revealed at birth by a method called "look down, see penis." 
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I was aghast. "You mean there isn& #39;t a shadowy cabal of doctors in a worldwide conspiracy to arbitrarily assign a gender to each and every baby, sentencing them with the stroke of a pen to a life sentence in gender prison?!" 2/9
She then asked me if I was off my meds but confirmed that in fact, there is no such grand conspiracy. But why then, friends, have I been constrained into a box my entire life by Society™, if not for that M on my birth certificate or the dangly doodle betwixt my legs? 3/9
The answer of course is that I haven& #39;t. I& #39;m an individual, not a mass-produced representation of men. Some things considered masculine apply to me & I do many things other men also do, but the only cage societal expectations can put you in is only enforced in your own mind. 4/9
I& #39;m generally a fairly nerdy masculine on the scale, completely indifferent to team sports but really interested in technology. Aside from a handful of rude comments, not much was ever said about me being masculine in some areas and others not. No one cares & I& #39;m still a man. 5/9
Seriously, for the most part society doesn& #39;t give a shit about your gender nonconformity. Bullies will zero in on whatever you& #39;re insecure about, but if you& #39;re not bothered by it they have no power. None of this is enforced by anything other than judgmental comments. So what? 6/9
Be a dude who wears a dress and lipstick if you want, or ride a motorcycle and wear short hair as a woman. Whatever blows your hair back! Your sex doesn& #39;t dictate everything you have to be. But save me this talk about how either of those two examples aren& #39;t male or female. 7/9
