Happy international non-binary day to everyone who doesn't fit into the two boxes!

I only really thought about gender for the first time a few years ago. Probably not even a decade back. I was not at all young, anyhow. The words 'male' and 'female' didn't mean anything to me in terms of who and what I was - I might as well have been defined by any random cluster of letters, a nmkl pkjl or a ftmch.

And I thought most people felt that way. It never occurred to me that when someone says that they're male/female/nb/other, it actually means something to them, isn't just a collection of letters, isn't just a placeholder.

Finding that out was a surprise. People are odd.

So, yeah, from then onwards I've mostly identified as ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ (or agender, if I have to pick something, as apparently ascii art doesn't count as a gender?!), because honestly, I haven't a sodding clue. I'm me. That's all I've ever been, only me.

Mind you, if you saw me in the street, you'd think I was a bloke, if a somewhat weird one, large and burly and blokeish and probably wearing trousers. So, you know, you don't get to assume someone's gender based on what they look like to *you*.

Happy day to everyone who is themselves, regardless of what society thinks you look like or ought to look like!

#InternationalNonBinaryDay #nonbinary #agender

Happy #NonBinaryDay #NonBinaryPeoplesDay #InternationalNonBinaryDay 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🤍🤎🖤

RT @MaddyKilmurray@twitter.com

Today is #InternationalNonBinaryDay, and I wish I could tell little me that I'd be this happy living as a Non-Binary person. I'm have a wonderful, supportive wife, I'm surrounded by chosen family, and those years of questioning and exploring my identity was worth it #NonBinaryJoy

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MaddyKilmurray/status/1547143855014903808