
What it means to be a Demiboy
What does it mean to me being a demiboy?
Some gender identities need a little more explaining than others, especially as everyone has a different experience. Thus, I made this poster explaining what it means to me.
As a demiboy, I am comfortable with my masculine secondary sexual characteristics, such as my voice, my facial and body hair, and those features people see. However, it's the primary characteristics, those manifest at birth, I would like to remedy. It'll help me feel complete, and represent the kind of man I want to be.
I made this poster to help someone in a group chat I was in, since they were going through something of a crisis in that they aspired to transition, but worried that they weren't "dysphoric enough" to find the help they needed. For a long time, I felt the same; I felt that what I wanted was unattainable, simply because I or my ideal gender weren't fitting a specific template, that because my actual and ideal overlapped in many areas, I wasn't wanting to transition enough to warrant help.
Except I found someone else who wanted the same thing, and they managed to explain to me what it meant to be non-binary, and I found the definition for a demiboy/demimale, and it made perfect sense to me. They were able to explain their needs to a therapist and now have the gender identity they were meant to be. And through their discovery, they've inspired me to explore it myself, and hopefully help those who are trans, but not sure if their end goal can be reached.
Remember, no two gender journeys are the same, and that's what makes each one special, You may just change how you present, take hormones, have surgery, or just use different titles and pronouns. Whatever you do, it's all valid, and our stories should be shared, because you never know if someone else felt the same, and your story allows them to start theirs.
Some gender identities need a little more explaining than others, especially as everyone has a different experience. Thus, I made this poster explaining what it means to me.
As a demiboy, I am comfortable with my masculine secondary sexual characteristics, such as my voice, my facial and body hair, and those features people see. However, it's the primary characteristics, those manifest at birth, I would like to remedy. It'll help me feel complete, and represent the kind of man I want to be.
I made this poster to help someone in a group chat I was in, since they were going through something of a crisis in that they aspired to transition, but worried that they weren't "dysphoric enough" to find the help they needed. For a long time, I felt the same; I felt that what I wanted was unattainable, simply because I or my ideal gender weren't fitting a specific template, that because my actual and ideal overlapped in many areas, I wasn't wanting to transition enough to warrant help.
Except I found someone else who wanted the same thing, and they managed to explain to me what it meant to be non-binary, and I found the definition for a demiboy/demimale, and it made perfect sense to me. They were able to explain their needs to a therapist and now have the gender identity they were meant to be. And through their discovery, they've inspired me to explore it myself, and hopefully help those who are trans, but not sure if their end goal can be reached.
Remember, no two gender journeys are the same, and that's what makes each one special, You may just change how you present, take hormones, have surgery, or just use different titles and pronouns. Whatever you do, it's all valid, and our stories should be shared, because you never know if someone else felt the same, and your story allows them to start theirs.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Miscellaneous
Species Koala
Size 905 x 1280px
File Size 275.3 kB
I have been through a very similar experience with my gender identity. My husband told me that he believed he was a Demiboy but for so many years I had no idea what the concept was of gender identity, nonbinary, etc. For years, I knew that I didn't feel like a cis-gendered male but to me the only alternative was trans. I didn't feel like I was trans, or a female. Through my partner discovering themselves, I too have discovered myself. It's been a magical experience~
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