![]() My biggest question was, why did I feel a certain way towards people that are like me, and why does that affect my masculinity? I didn’t understand.Īnd I'll be completely honest, in terms of questions about gender, it wasn't until I became friends with people in the trans community and actually had real conversations with them that I began to understand gender in a much, much bigger way. GC: I think I had been taught that if I liked boys, that was emasculating. TPM: What questions did you have about gender, especially masculinity, as a young person? And how did you find the answers to those questions? It means taking care of the people around you, sticking up for your friends, sticking up for your family, being brave, not stepping away from a challenge. I think, for me, it really goes back to principles. It has nothing to do with the way you dress or the way you talk, or how you identify. I'm starting to realize as I'm getting older that being a man and being firm in your masculinity is so far removed from an exterior vision of it. TPM: Has your idea of what being a man means changed since you were 16?
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