[MOGAI ABCs day thirteen]
from the MOGAI ABCs prompt list:
Day 13: Modality - what’s your relationship to gender modality – trans, cis, iso, amodal, etc?
That is a question with an answer that varies from alter to alter; on a collective level, though, we identify as transmasculine, typically trans guy but it varies, and honestly being seen as trans- is more important than being gendered correctly? Like, we're more akin to a trans guy within the spectrum of transmasculinity, but if someone saw us as butch, or nonbinary, or transfem, or whatever, we'd take that any day of the week over being seen as cishet. Being seen as some sort of trans-, or really queer in general, is our primary goal.
Tommy's answer
Oookayyyy so, in terms of my identity, I'm largely amodal; it doesn't really matter to me how I'm sunsine, for example, I just am, ykwim? But as for my presentation, I'm very much trans-, specifically a transmasc boy, for the reasons mentioned in the collective section of this post. Namely, I'm a cringey transmasc boy: if I don't look right out of the post-quarantine wave of alt kids, I'm doing it wrong. Gimme all the cringey shit! I may be cringe but you're (general you) mean and that's worse!!