I do not feel drawn towards gender now, that was something that happened when I was younger. I now realize it mainly happened when I was a child trying to fit in with the girls. I would concentrate on what I had in common with them (dolls, love stories, cute animals, etc.), thinking I was doing what I should be. Yet I could also find just as much common ground with the boys (mountain biking, soccer, cool animals, etc.) on the rare occasions I ended up hanging out with them. Looking back, I wonder if it was merely a coping mechanism. In the ultraconservative state of Alaska during the 1970s, absolutely nobody in my world talked about gender identity or uttered the word "non-binary."
