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When your gender expression doesn't match others' expectations

I'm nonbinary but I present pretty feminine and people keep assuming I'm just a woman who wants to be special or different.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Visual presentation becomes a referendum on identity validity, forcing justification of internal experience through external markers.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Gender identity — full spectrum?”

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