{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Like since my personality change led to a sexuality change I guess I've been thinking of myself as bi not pan cause \u2013 well,...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/630124634406305792/", "html": "<p>Like since my personality change led to a sexuality change I guess I&rsquo;ve been thinking of myself as bi not pan cause \u2013 well, cause I internalized this stuff and its vocab in the 90s, really. But past that, if the same update that unlocked trans girls unlocked straight-up boys, am I really seeing them as girls?</p><p>On the other side with cis women, the physical and personality boundaries of who I&rsquo;d go for have also extended, and the &ldquo;mayybe but I&rsquo;d probably be relating to them as women and that&rsquo;s weird and not fair&rdquo; asterisk about trans men has totally disappeared</p><p>Like, whether someone was <i>really</i> a girl or a boy mattered more to me when important aspects of my own self keyed off girls but not boys, I guess. But the flip side of living through this transition is I have a personal sense that if that is your thing, which is gonna be most people, it kinda <i>does</i> matter?</p>"}