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For the better part of a decade, I've been writing a diary called Annotations. Obviously my life isn't over so this story isn't done yet, but I have found some semblance of conclusion in the past few years. In honor of Trans Day of Visibility, I want to share my story. This won't come up anywhere else. Not on Patreon, not on our "all stories" page. It's just something I want to share with the community, who has been there for me for a long time and has a high ratio of trans members. I hope some people can find something important in this. I'll post a new entry every day until it's done (assuming I don't forget). ~Sophie --------------------------------------------------------- Annotations by Sophie I can’t quite understand why our world is so specific. We categorize humans apart from other mammals, although we all give birth the same way, and we categorize mammals apart from other animals, although we all have conscious thought, mobility, and a heartbeat. We categorize animals from plants and bacteria, although we’re all alive in a basic sense. Humans are divided by religion and culture and gender and race and age and height and weight and ability and level of sanity. Everyone is different. We will never come up with enough subcategories to eliminate all the connections between everyone in the world, so why have subcategories at all? Specifics create oddities. It’s odd for a Christian to be gay. It’s odd for an American to be a polygamist. It’s odd for a boy to wear a dress. It’s odd for an adult to use a pacifier. It’s odd for the obese to be healthy. It’s odd for the blind to marry someone beautiful. It’s odd for the insane to say things that make perfect sense. If this world wasn’t so specific people could be themselves, and I wouldn’t have to hide behind this alias anymore. Annotations by: Sophie