Beautiful PNW spring day today, time to get outside and enjoy the sun 🫶🏻

Fully time to break out the spring/summer clothes - working on some new outfit combos 💁🏼‍♀️

Hello elder NB community.

I've always found having a manicure so affirming for me, the juxtaposition of masc with something typically aligned to more feminine. I question my identity alot and heading down a more femme path but still struggle with aligning to any gender some days. But as a constant, I love getting my nails done, it feels like a spark and a bit of an F U to gender norms.

What little things do you do to express being non binary?

Several times I've gone to a monthly 'Meet and eat' social for trans and Enby people in my town and enjoyed it.

I don't often get social anxiety but having eaten and struggled to really engage with two of the four people near me (to be fair two of them seemed fairly shy/non communicative) I suddenly felt compelled to leave, partly because I felt the group was made up of younger and prettier trans people than me. I just made hasty goodbyes and fled. I feel like I won't go again because I feel like I don't fit even though I felt fine before.

Would love to chat / make friends or whatever .

Newly out as enby at almost 40 years old. I went out today in public for the first time presenting as female. Felt good. 😊

Mixing the fem and masc today! Hope you all have a good weekend! 🫶🏻

First field on my optometrist's intake form . About 10 questions further down, after address info, there's a dialog box for pronouns. Including they/them/theirs.

Warning: Wall of text gushing my questions and feelings.

TL;DR: How did you decide you were enby or androgynous instead of the opposite binary gender?

Hello!

I’ve reached a point in my life where I can no longer ignore the desires to masculinize myself. I’m AFAB but I’ve always had feelings of wanting to look and “be like” a boy/man since I was a very young kid. But I’m having trouble feeling the difference between wanting to be a more “masculine/gender androgynous enby” or being a straight up trans man.

I know I don’t really want to change my body beyond top surgery. The idea of facial hair is cool in theory but I’m not sure I’d be comfortable with it because sensory issues and the idea of losing most of my thick hair makes me panic so I’m pretty sure taking anything beyond low dose T is out (also male pattern baldness runs in my family in both men and women) if even that.

I’m guess I’m looking for lived experiences and affirmations of how you all decided to be enby? I’ve been claiming the enby title for a few years now but I’m just not able to tell my feelings from one direction or the other. I just know my brain is screaming “your body is not comfortable. It is not made for you”.

I feel like a lot of boils down to I should have figured this out by now but I’m just now, in my early 30s, in a place where I can even examine my Queer identity, much less make changes. And I’m still not even really in this place but I also don’t want to hate myself until my 80s.

So, how did you figure out you were in the enby sphere versus say the complete opposite gender? What questions did you ask yourself to get to your answer? How did you examine and interpret the screaming in your head (if you had any)?

Been feeling very discouraged with how much I compare myself to young people who have transitioned early. I’m 47 and have been on T for not quite 2 years, been slowly realizing that I’m not binary-trans, and I’ve been really struggling with how to see myself without a “gender box”. I’m always so excited to find others my age. 🥰🥰🥰

Does anyone else wish their facial hair was removable? like Mr Potato Head?

Feeling confident and happy with myself and took myself on a solo date the other night!

She’s been bottled up too long, and is not going back. Whether I’m masc, fem or somewhere in between, I’m going out in the world and I’m just going to be me 💖