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Samantha

News Staff

From: Seattle, WA, USA

Registered: 2023-05-06

Posts: 13

I'm transgender and my twin is not

https://www.insider.com/trans-femme-twi … her-2023-7

I'm transgender and my twin is not. After my transition, we still feel like identical twins.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jubilee Alexander. The following has been edited for length and clarity.

My identical twin brother, two sisters, and I were homeschooled and raised in a religious household in Indiana, Idaho, and later Washington. Our parents had a specific idea of what masculinity was and wasn't.

My twin, Eric, and I were scrawny, nerdy kids. We felt we weren't living up to the messaging we were receiving, so we tried to bulk up to look more like the expectations for boys and men. That didn't work. We also heard all the time that men couldn't be feminine because it supposedly meant you were gay, but we knew we were attracted to girls and received attention from them, though neither of us dated much until college.

Last edited by SarahEL (2023-07-17 21:57:47)