my pronouns
silviana amethyst
7/28/18
. . . are she / her / hers.
I am a trans woman. Why? In the end, it requires literally no justification whatsoever, any more than any other person using any other pronouns. Nonetheless,
my story begins with ¶
an epiphany
in about June 2016. Laying in bed, I googled phrases that were running through my mind. I do not remember any exact, or even good approximate, such phrases. But they led me to r/genderqueer and r/genderfluid, where I read stories from other people wondering the same things. Is it ok that I experiment with gender expression? Is something wrong with me that I have wanted to be a girl my whole life? Who am I?
I stayed there for a while, sharing some thoughts on gender and femininity.
Finding the words to describe my experiences and feelings was empowering. I have names for things! And, I have long known that to name something is to start to exert power over it.
genderqueer. transgender. transwoman. transsexual. genderfuck. transition. amab. mtf.
As I learned about the trans world, I reframed and shed many previously held assumptions and interpretations about limitations to my gender, and started to become the person I always wanted to be.
My whole life I have felt a yearning for femininity. I assert myself as femme, female, feminine.