![]() Two years ago, I came out as a nonbinary trans person. ![]() In high school, after telling my best friend that my grandfather died, he asked me to please leave his house if I was planning to cry. I cried often as a child, and a cousin once pulled me aside to tell me that as a boy I should never cry unless I had a cut running from my eye to my ankle. ![]() I spent my first 31 years moving through spaces where I didn’t feel I belonged, and I was often told implicitly or explicitly that I wasn’t performing maleness correctly. My personal relationship to masculinity is fraught. For better or worse, everyone you know is watching “Ted Lasso.” The strong, silent type is losing some of his allure. ![]() Others have enrolled in workshops and men’s groups in an effort to get in touch with their feelings and become better men. It hasn’t disappeared, of course, but in the years since #MeToo, many men have been trying to drop the stoicism and anger that have long warped masculinity. ![]()
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