I think there's a transboy in my third-period class. I'm eighty to ninety percent sure. I mean, I don't think this is just me seeing queers everywhere. He doesn't just dress like a boy (even down to the boxer shorts sticking out of those awkward low-riding pants that boys so inexplicably like to wear) - he sounds like one, and walks like one. And he can't be a cisboy, as he's got breasts.
I want to talk to him. I want to ask him how he does that with his voice - I want to be able to sound less like a girl. I had an opportunity today, he was right there, and not doing anything, but I didn't do it. Scared, I was. But the opportunity was perfect - if I didn't do it then, will I ever?
In other news, I was thinking about pronouns last night. Ei, eis, eim (rhyming with say, ways, aim) seemed nice and unstressed without any inconvenient consonant sounds. I played around with putting them in sentences. My bird is here in eis cage, squeaking at me. Ei's always squeaking, it seems. Ei won't shut up, even when I give in to eis demands and take eim out of eis cage and let eim sit on my shoulder - sometimes ei keeps squeaking until I rub eis head, which requires me to give eim one of my hands and have only one hand left for whatever it is I'm doing: typing, turning pages, writing. Sorry, I got a bit sidetracked. 'Ei' won't catch on, but it does kind of work. Sometimes it sounds a little forced in my mind, but then I try substituting in 'she' and actually focusing on the word 'she,' and it sounds just as forced. Anyway.......
That's all.
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i thought the GNPs were zie,
i thought the GNPs were zie, heir and heirs...that's what my gsa pres told me...
You're so beautiful, you made me forget my pick up line. ;)
If you want to go up to the
If you want to go up to the guy in your third period class, I think its okay, as long as you establish that you're not transphobic, so its not like his alerts are going off in his head, otherwise , he'll act super guarded and such. I would approach it easily and say you're interested.
I'm not going to generalize, but for me personally as well as some people I've talked to, they actually LIKE to be asked about being trans , because in the society we live in, its better to be asked rather than to have others just keep staring.
:)
I talked to him today...
I talked to him today... Asked about his voice. 'If you don't mind my asking, how do you do that with your voice?' I said. He didn't understand. 'I mean, my voice is kind of girly, and that annoys me, but yours...' He just told me that his voice was naturally deep, that everyone in his family was like that. I'm not at all sure I believe that - I've never noticed anybody else with that little testosterone to speak that low naturally. The way I interpret it: He doesn't want to talk. So I'll leave him alone.
Lamb_da, I'd never heard those pronouns before, although they're awfully similar to the ones in An_drew's signature. How do you pronounce those? How widely used are they?
well, i don't know. as i
well, i don't know. as i said, my gsa president introduced it to us. i think she learned it from a gsa training camp thing...i'm sorry i'm not of much help *hug*
You're so beautiful, you made me forget my pick up line. ;)