Just my drunken two cents, not op, etc:

Idk if it was a choice for me (just who I am?) but this is my position personally after thinking about my gender. I’m amab but have always been vaguely femme(ish) especially my voice. Was constantly misgendered as a kid and even into adult life, especially on the phone. Never enjoyed “masculine” things growing up, hated sports etc, was always at odds with traditional gender expectations. Was constantly told that the things I enjoyed were “not manly”, and that I should be more like the other boys etc. Never once questioned that I was a man, just figured that whatever “being a man” was was absolute BS and didn’t apply to me.

Met my SO in college, and then a few years later when they were going through their gender struggles to realize they were NB, interrogated my own gender and realized that we had a lot of similar experiences. But I sort of landed on that I identified as a man still, just that the overwhelming majority of things that “made someone a man” were absolute horse shit made up by and foisted on me by society etc.

So I guess long story short I identify as a cis man but reject whatever bullshit society wants to put on me as “masculine” or whatever. Idk what anyone wants to label that as, but I’m a man and I’ll do what I want, and whatever that is I consider manly, because I’m a man and I do it so there.

yeah but would you rather have one Lee Carter or one John Fetterman? those are your two choices for Chapo adjacent ‘leftists’ actually in politics unfortunately… (I am deliberately forgetting the squad for this joke)