Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26064215-20150127201253/@comment-26319455-20150430010025

Phantomlink959 wrote: ah, that explains it. I personally draw the acceptance line at agender, because anything beyond that is... yeah..
 * shrug*

I'm big on empathy, as was likely made obvious by my answer to "what would your semblance be." If I encounter someone with an experience or view of things that's new to me or that I have a hard time understanding, I take the time and effort to try and understand. It's impossible for me to completely empathize with an experience I haven't had myself, but with effort and imagination, one can still find some measure of empathy in such things. In doing so, I've come to understand that it's totally valid for one to experience oneself as neither male nor female, some of both, or any other variation thereof. If--for instance--a trans girl can experience herself as female despite having anotomical features most commonly associated with males (or vice-versa for a trans guy), why would other experiences of genders that differ from gendered anatomy be any less valid?

That, and I trust people to know themselves better than others--including me--can know them, since as Live said, " No one knows the real you except yourself."

If this is a conversation you're interested in continuing, PM me (if that's a thing here?) so I don't derail this thread. Otherwise, I'll shut up now.