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oneknightlight · 2 years ago

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I just remembered another piece of my life that was trans foreshadowing. When I was in 3rd grade the class had a challenge that whoever wrote the best theatre play could actually put on a theatre production for the rest of the 3rd grade. My class voted my play as the best, and I personally saw to it that I cast myself as a boy character. I put my hair up in a baseball cap, and wore the only pair of jeans and the only not-girly shirt I owned and led my group of 3rd grade nerd friends in the worst parody of Jack and the Beanstalk you’ve ever heard in your life.

#I took that shit seriously too #made a beanstalk prop and painted a backdrop #Walt talks #and I was so fucking mad when a kid in the audience pointed out that a ‘girl’ was playing a boy character #I was like please fucking just. someone gender me correctly #I must’ve been oblivious because I hopped on that stage in front of like 200 other 3rd graders and several teachers and parents #destroyed every single child in that rooms concept of gender norms #cracked some of the worst jokes known to man kind #and then bowed at the end like I was William Shakespeare and left #what’s really funny about this whole thing is that my parents watched this go down and were like #yeah it’s normal for little girls to meticulously write boy characters and insist on playing #them #hair up in a cap and all #in front of the entire school

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