daily conversation

hello. since this is my first post, i guess i'll introduce myself. i'm Zoe, a music geek who wears plaid and guys pants. thats all people see when they look at me. i'm so much more than that. underneath that i'm wiser than i ever get credit for, more sensitive than people realize, have social anxiety, am very self conscious, and am neither a girl nor a boy.

i go by the pronoun Xe, a gender neutral "label" that i self-impose. often times i've been called he, even before i realized i'm not really a boy or a girl.

note that i said GENDER neutral. that's because there is a distinct difference between gender and sex. sex can be attributed to genitalia, whereas gender is how one identifies. more often than not, these overlap, and people's sex and gender are the same. but there are the people in the gray area, the people assumed to be in the gray area, and the people who dont know where they fall.
and i proudly fall into the gray area.
i'm almost always afraid how people would react if they were to know, but its funny. my mother almost told me that she would rather my appearance be an issue of gender expression as opposed to sexuality. unfortunately for her, its both.
i'll be sure to post longer, more detailed posts eventually, but this is all for now.
thanks for reading!