"Are you a boy or a girl?" - Contest

Description from original post (created 2016-05-06 15:19):

I'm constantly asked the question, "Are you a boy or a girl?" online. Well, the answer is: Maybe? I'm not a boy. I'm not a girl. I'm non-binary - genderfluid to be specific. Sometimes I am a boy. Sometimes I am a girl. Sometimes I'm both, partially boy/girl, neither, or something else entirely. And when I say this, I get mocked.

Online, I can be myself. I can be whoever I want to be. My friends have a (hopefully) gender neutral image of me online, but strangers don't know what to think. I'll get called "she" when I'm feeling masculine (ex: now), or any binary (he/she) pronoun when I just want to be called "they."

And I'm tired of it. People call me my birthname to make me squirm, people tell me I'm just trying to be special. I know they don't understand my gender, and quite frankly, at times, neither do I, but that shouldn't give them way to harass me and invalidate me.

So this skin kind of reflects all that. The grey stands for the unknown - people who don't understand or know what my gender is. Pink stands for female, something I'm assumed to be quite often (probably because I'm biologically female). And blue stands for male, something I can also be mistaken for, but at the time don't really mind if that's the case, seeing how I feel like a boy right now.

But where is my in between? Why isn't there a yellow, green, or purple? Because no one else sees that. It's hidden under the grey, unable to be peeled off because of closed mindedness.

I am trans*, and I am proud.