💜 Today is Wear It Purple Day!! 💜 I don't own much purple clothing, but I recently dug this hat out of storage. Fun facts about this hat: 1. I have owned it since I was in primary school. #90skid 2. It still fits my head (in fact, it fits my head better than some of my 'adult' sized hats). 3. I religiously wore this hat while skateboarding because it had Bart skate boarding on it, and my friends would complement my hat. 4. Before I had any words to describe my gender, or even knew that the thoughts and feelings I had relating to my gender shouldn't be something I was ashamed of, THIS HAT MADE ME FEEL LIKE MYSELF. It affirmed me, it gave me confidence, it 'fit me', it helped me move through the world - a scary world in which I was picked on for not being girly, was called a "man" as an insult, in which tomboy was both an insult used against me and a badge of honour I chose/tried to wear with pride, a world in which I was told I couldn't get my hair cut short like I wanted because " I already looked too much like a boy" #badparenting #lookatmenowdad🖕 5. Due to iso, I am now sporting a haircut similar to what I wanted in the 90s (but was too shy to ask for and instead asked for a more "feminine" short hair style, which I was denied), so I am rocking that length and middle-part, and I am embracing it with love and pride, and have named it "the 90s flop". I wish that as a young person I had of had Wear It Purple Day, so I could have known I wasn't alone, or weird, or wrong. Now, I celebrate Wear It Purple Day (and other pride and LGBTIQA+ awareness days) so that the generations coming after me know that they are amazing - not "inspite of" - but INCLUDING their LGBTIQA+ identity!!! #transgender #trans #transmasculine #nonbinary #transchristian #nonbinarychristian #bisexual #pansexual #bisexualchristian #pansexualchristian #queer #queerchristian #fearfullyandwonderfullymade #queerfullyandwonderfullymade #lgbtiqa #wearitpurple #wearitpurpleday #wearitpurpleday2020 https://www.instagram.com/p/CEaxm9fl2zygCUikTXesKaZLcGGT6knqK2GSLY0/?igshid=3qvt9v18ea83
