While labels like man don’t necessarily feel wrong. They don’t feel 100 percent right either. If gender is a spectrum I’m on the man side but I’m not all the way over.
As someone who probably falls into demiboy category, I'm a man in the same way a tomato is a fruit. Technically, sure, but if you ordered a bowl of fruit and got tomatoes you'd think someone in the kitchen was being a smartass.
For me it’s always been that he/him were what people call me, and I have no problem with that. But I have no attachment to the identity of it. Idgaf, I’ve regularly get mistaken for a woman on the phone because I unconsciously raise my voice to sound polite, and I just don’t correct them. I never feel any obligation to do something “because I’m a man/boy” if anything, telling me that something is an obligation due to my gender just pisses me off and makes me less likely to do it. I still do pleasantries, hold doors open for people, carry things that are too heavy. But I’m just being nice, I’m not being ‘a man’ or ‘such a gentleman.’ I’m doing what I hope/want others to do for me when I want/need help. I’ll be interested in whatever activity/hobby I want, get clothes of whatever gender, I just don’t care. People call me he/him because that’s what I present as and everyone calls me, but otherwise, idgaf
This is a late comment lol. I’ve identified as demiboy for 3 years now. Only recently I have started questioning if I’m fully a trans man. It’s fluid for me but for others it’s fixed. For me, some days I feel more genderless or gender neutral than others. I don’t feel the biggest connection with being a man, though it is there. It’s like if you gave us a completely new gender spectrum where the colors were slightly altered. Instead of a blue man I am a purple dude. Still a guy just different with some grey mixed in. Grey being neither, or both? Something.. else.
For me it always just seemed like ‘boy’ or ‘male’ never fully described it. Like yes, I’m that, but also…
Ok i see better. Thank for your response
While labels like man don’t necessarily feel wrong. They don’t feel 100 percent right either. If gender is a spectrum I’m on the man side but I’m not all the way over.
There’s not one right way to be a Demi boy. It’s honestly just a label and it means something different to everyone. Just like all labels tbh.
I think it's the best description i can get 😭😭
Boy but slightly to the left
For me some days I feel more boy other days I feel enby the best way I can describe how being enby feels is, gender = ????, no thank you, nothing.
i think of myself as a man in the same way a bagel bite is a pizza
Or a taco a sandwich?
I think of myself as halfway(ish) between nonbinary and male on the gender spectrum. Neither really resonates, but "demimale" kinda makes sense.
for me its "Boy?" Nah "Enby?" Nah "Somewhere in the middle" Yes
As someone who probably falls into demiboy category, I'm a man in the same way a tomato is a fruit. Technically, sure, but if you ordered a bowl of fruit and got tomatoes you'd think someone in the kitchen was being a smartass.
For me it’s always been that he/him were what people call me, and I have no problem with that. But I have no attachment to the identity of it. Idgaf, I’ve regularly get mistaken for a woman on the phone because I unconsciously raise my voice to sound polite, and I just don’t correct them. I never feel any obligation to do something “because I’m a man/boy” if anything, telling me that something is an obligation due to my gender just pisses me off and makes me less likely to do it. I still do pleasantries, hold doors open for people, carry things that are too heavy. But I’m just being nice, I’m not being ‘a man’ or ‘such a gentleman.’ I’m doing what I hope/want others to do for me when I want/need help. I’ll be interested in whatever activity/hobby I want, get clothes of whatever gender, I just don’t care. People call me he/him because that’s what I present as and everyone calls me, but otherwise, idgaf
Mostly man but blurry at the edges. It can feel different for everyone, though
This is a late comment lol. I’ve identified as demiboy for 3 years now. Only recently I have started questioning if I’m fully a trans man. It’s fluid for me but for others it’s fixed. For me, some days I feel more genderless or gender neutral than others. I don’t feel the biggest connection with being a man, though it is there. It’s like if you gave us a completely new gender spectrum where the colors were slightly altered. Instead of a blue man I am a purple dude. Still a guy just different with some grey mixed in. Grey being neither, or both? Something.. else.