Confusion
Being confused is something I rarely deal with. The first time I dealt with it truly head-on was one year ago when I began to think about being trans. In my early YouTube videos, which sadly no longer exist due to my parents making me take them down, I made it seem like the second I found out what being an ftm was I was like, “That it! That’s me!” It however was not like that. For the first day it was. That night I didn’t sleep and kept thinking about it. Piling the things I identified with to the things I didn’t. At first it was hard because I was only going off of what one trans guy was saying. So I ventured off looking for others. As I watched other peoples videos I began to understand that being trans even ftm is the same for every tguy. I struggled with that for a long time. I would go along then realize there is something I do that guys don’t do and would start to panic thinking that just because of this I’m not this or that.
It took a while nearly this full year to remember that just because I’m a tguy doesn’t mean I’m not able to be me. For the last five or so year I’ve been big into the goth thing and wearing heavy dark makeup. For the last year I avoided heavily and shunned any feelings of wanting to put my eyeliner on and black eyeshadow.
I remember last year it really bothered me during Hallowe’en, my favorite holiday, because I didn’t feel like I would be allowed to put face paint on and be a zombie geisha. Hallowe’en last year was only about a month after I came out to my friends and they weren’t fully on board yet. Leaving me to feel like I needed to prove my manhood to them. Something I now find slightly ridiculous though still play the man card game.
Where am I going with this? I don’t really know but when I had my Adam Lambert day last Sat and put on my makeup giving in to the part of me that was begging the last by of confusion melted away.
So I like wearing make up from time to time! I’m also mostly gay! And when I’ve transitioned fully I look forward to being able to dress in drag sometimes, and cosplay as tomboy characters! Does this make me less of a manly man, yes! But the thing is I’m not nor never claimed (seriously at least) to be. It doesn’t stop me from identifying as a male and being trans. It doesn’t take away from my identity! If any thing it adds to it! It makes me, me! A person I’m finally happy, and only a little confused, to be!