Did you ever question your sexuality or gender in the church? How you identify now?

Yes, I did, and thanks to the church's shitty treatment of the LGBTQIA I stayed silent about it for years because I was afraid of judgement. (Thanks for the religous trauma, LDS inc!) How do I identify now? It's kind of complicated. When people ask I usually tell them I'm lesbian or queer because those are good umbrella terms for my identity. But to be a bit more specific, I am an aromantic asexual who feels queerplatonic attraction and possibly some romantic attraction to women and nonbinary aligned genders. I am a demigirl, which means I feel partially nonbinary and partially female, if that makes any sense. I use she/her and they/them pronouns but I am comfortable with xey/xem and most other neopronouns as well. Make sense? Of course not. I use these labels to express myself and feel a sense of identity and wholeness, not to seem special or quirky.

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