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Yes, Genderqueer People Have A Stake In Gender Politics | s. e. smith

We all play the hand we’re dealt. Not everyone gets a straight flush. I was dealt a gender that’s very much in conflict with the body I live in, but I have to make that body work for me, and over time, I’m working towards a state of acceptance and peace with it, rather than abject misery and hatred. Every time I’m reminded that I’m ‘really’ a woman because of my body and then told thirty seconds later to shut up because I’m not a woman, the whiplash reminds me that people desperately want to stick me in a box somewhere and make me shut up.