• lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Sounds like gender euphoria: being totally fine with your assigned gender but feeling much better in a different one

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    I’m a guy but I was made an honorary girl once, way back in high school, so that I could attend an all-girls sleepover party. I was assigned the name “Isabelle”.

    (No, we didn’t do anything inappropriate.)

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        Sorry, but my answer is going to be boring. This happened before transgender issues started getting a lot of attention, so I just thought it was funny and naughty. I wasn’t thinking about gender identity. Now I don’t feel like my gender is a big part of who I am, so I also don’t feel a strong reaction (either positive or negative) to the idea of having a different gender. I do think I would look terrible dressed as a woman - I don’t have the elegant androgynous sort of male body.

        At one point the girls (or should I say “the other girls”) were holding me down and trying to put makeup on me, but I wriggled loose. I do regret that a little, not because I wish I had had makeup on but because I think that if I had been less self-conscious back then, I would have had more fun and better stories to tell too. I was so self-conscious that it overwhelmed even my teenage hormonal desire to let a bunch of women holding me down do whatever they wanted to do to me.

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            No, but your question reminds me of how before puberty, I wanted to play video games as a male character (girls had cooties) but after puberty I often prefer to play as a female character. I still play RPGs as a male (I suppose it helps me get in character, plus romance subplots feel weird otherwise) but in other games I usually choose female characters because they’re prettier (not necessarily in a sexual way). I liked paying Guild Wars because many of the women’s outfits were just gorgeous. One character class went into battle wearing my choice of fancy dress. That was fun.

            (The Guild Wars graphics look a lot worse than I remembered. They seemed really good back then.)

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    Wouldn’t this just be considered cross dressing? Not sure if the language has evolved there though.

    Now I’m thinking of Eddie Izzard.

    Edit: ok now I’m really out of date I didn’t know she goes by Suzy now. I legit thought she was cis

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      Izzard identifies as genderfluid[94][95] and calls herself “somewhat boy-ish and somewhat girl-ish”.[18] She uses the word “transgender” as an umbrella term.[96] When asked in 2019 what pronouns she preferred, Izzard responded, “either ‘he’ or ‘she’” and explained, “If I am in boy mode, then ‘he’, or girl mode, ‘she’”.[97] In 2020, she requested she/her pronouns for an appearance on the TV show Portrait Artist of the Year and said she wants “to be based in girl mode from now on”.[98] In March 2023, she announced that she would begin using the name Suzy in addition to Eddie, saying that she is “going to be Suzy Eddie Izzard”.[2][1] Explaining that she had wanted to use the name Suzy since she was 10 years old, she added that people “can choose” which name they want to use to refer to her,[1][2] and that she would keep using Eddie Izzard as her public name since it is more widely recognised.[99]

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Izzard#Personal_life

      for the lazy ^

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      Yea cross dressing is still a popular thing, with this greentext joke ignores. Though a lot of closeted trans women would also be extatic at the situation presented here.

      Also! Woa! I didn’t know that! Good for her good for her

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        Isn’t that literally crossdressing? Someone enjoying dressing up as the opposing gender, yet being cis otherwise? For example, just because they like the aesthetic, or because it is a fetish for them?

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    Reminds me of when I used to go to my friend’s house and dress up in her clothes and have a threesome with her boyfriend.

    I’m a straight cis male though.