dinosaurrainbowstarfish:

Here’s for the trans, nb, and genderqueer folks who didn’t show a single “sign” of it when they were younger

The folks who rack their brains trying to come up with SOMETHING they did that should have tipped them off

The people whose friends are really, honestly, completely surprised

The people who feel like their own gender came at them out of left field

To the people who feel like they had to figure out a different part of their queer identity before they could “unlock” the gender part

It’s okay.

We didn’t understand gender roles when we were little. And as we grew up we didn’t think we were allowed to break those roles, so we didn’t realize what our identities were until we gave ourselves space to question.

You didn’t have to always know. And that’s okay.