How to Talk About Your Gender Story

Have you ever stopped to think about your gender story? What were you taught about your own gender from birth to now? What messages did you receive about your gender from adults in your life, school, church, and the media? At what point did you decide what you believe about your gender and others' genders? Did you feel any guilt or internalized oppression? Did you at any point reject those feelings? Embrace those feelings? How has your understanding of your own gender evolved? Anything you've started or stopped doing as a result of knowing your gender better?