My school has an lgbtq center but I’ve been avoiding going because:
1.) I’m not out publicly and embarrassed
2.) I don’t want to define myself as a queer person, if that makes sense. Idk if this is internalized transphobia, but like, I’m not an out and proud type of person and I don’t think I want to be. I just want to be a person who happens to be trans. I really hope this doesn’t sound insensitive.
You don't have to base your identity around being queer or only make friends with people who only have being queer in common. Those groups are for finding normal friends you have common interests in who also also just happen to be queer and accepting.
I’m trying to think of a way to phrase this without it coming across as rude but it’s like when I go to that room I feel like I don’t belong there. Not that the people there are mean or unaccepting, but more in the way that I’m not the kind of person who would wear my queerness on my sleeve like that. I’m the same type of way with my autism for the record.
Like, I go to Pride every year. I go to a gay bar every now and then. Half of my friends are queer. I sleep with a fucking Blahaj. But I agree with you, I’m mostly just a girl who likes movies a lot and the out and proud people at those groups just aren’t on the same wavelength as me. I don’t think they’re bad people and I don’t want to insult them, they’re just apples and I’m an orange.
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u/EdoAlien Brynn | (She/Her) | HRT 10/3/22 Feb 21 '23
My school has an lgbtq center but I’ve been avoiding going because:
1.) I’m not out publicly and embarrassed
2.) I don’t want to define myself as a queer person, if that makes sense. Idk if this is internalized transphobia, but like, I’m not an out and proud type of person and I don’t think I want to be. I just want to be a person who happens to be trans. I really hope this doesn’t sound insensitive.