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I told my mum I was gender fluid, she laughed and said ‘You couldn’t be anything other than female if your life depended on it, look at you’.
I told my partner I was gender fluid, he said ‘ok’ and bar the odd slip early on used my correct pronouns forever after, nothing else changed. I told him when I decided the term Agender suited how I feel better, he was interested in my reasons as he always is then after I explained he said ‘ok’.
He is a mostly straight, white, CIS man and he’s lived his life with all the privileges that come with being those things, he grew up in a small town as well but most importantly he knows that that background and those privileges are no excuse for homophobia or transphobia.