I’m really struggling to accept that I’m likely bigender. Partly because my gender journey also coincided with some extremely tough circumstances. It’s hard not to be skeptical or wonder if I’m having mental issues. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, either. It’s just frustrating because I don’t know what to take seriously and how far to take things.
I will feel pretty squarely “male”. And come to accept that part of me. But then today, felt a bit dysphoric and needed to be more femme/ female. (Also hard to know the difference between liking my own feminine energy and actually feeling aligned as afab)
Anyway, the part that gets to me is I can understand being trans mtf ftm or nonbinary etc. I struggle to accept being fluid or having two very active and pronounced parts of myself. Because I sincerely wonder what the difference is between that and DID? Though, my gender feelings are all me. They feel cohesive. I dont dissociate to the degree of amnesia. But I also have pretty severe PTSD from recent life things and started spending a lot of time ideating on gender, almost as an escape from my life. Though, the feelings have been there for forever I just didn’t have a way to make sense of them.
I’m not asking for anyone to diagnose me or not. I am pretty positive I am bigender/trans/nonbinary to some extent. I just so happen to also have PTSD. I’ve had the gender feelings before the trauma.
Anyway…the question is… How do you all cope with this? I really really wish I could just be a binary trans man or find a way to be comfortable being cis but I’m not sure that’ll ever happen. Nor do I want to have so much internalized transphobia <\3 help :(