Hi all! My name is Isabel and I'm a researcher at UMass Amherst working on a study with sociology professor Kathryne Young. The study looks at relationships and/or sexual encounters between women who identify as butch, masculine of center, tomboy, etc. and straight, cis men. We are conducting 45 minute long video call interviews to collect data. If you are interested, feel free to message me, reach out to our collective study email relationship_study@yahoo.com, or Professor Young at young@umass.edu. Thank you!

I’ve finally figured out that I’m probably less than cis and not quite trans, but I wanted to try binding my chest during quarantine. Aside from avoiding duct tape and not wearing it longer than 8 hours, does anyone have advice?

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Anyone women on here feel better and more authentic with natural body hair or close to natural? Also with no makeup? I respect people’s feelings and opinions, even if they are in opposition to mine. But having said that I just feel like society and the world want women to be fake in order to be considered beautiful or feminine. Like why is a man with hairy legs, messy hair and a bare face considered normal and masculine, while the same is not true for a woman? Me as a woman in my natural form should be considered the standard and feminine. Again it’s okay if you disagree, I guess I’m just venting. I love my natural body, hair and face. I accept it all. I wish men did too. I wish the world did too.

I’ve presented femininely my entire life and I’ve always been very comfortable and confident. I dated several masc women and idolized them. Now I can’t see myself ever being femme again. I shaved my hair off, am starting to dress more masc. but the other day I tried putting make up on and started crying bc I look fake and feel so uncomfortable. Has anyone experienced such a drastic and immediate change in their gender expression? I can’t explain it. I know gender is fluid, but idk.

Would anyone here date another masc girl? Bc I’m finding that masc4masc is hard to find):

How come there are no recent posts? Id love to swap stories about being in society the way we are and undermining patriarchy and why we do what we do and how we got here. I find it idea of masc women facinating, I hope there r people still on here that can have that discussion I will wait and see I guess🌻

What do youse like to be called? Our space voted on being a collectively called a sisterhood a while back we have ppl IDing as girls and boys.

Hey all, I’ve created a new sub for younger people, r/teenagecrossdressing, for feminine boys and masculine girls. I’m keeping it private, so you’ll have to request entry. I’m looking to create a small community of teens and young adults looking to talk with others their age. Let me know if you have any questions!

Most people assume im either a butch lesbian, trans or a 14 year old boy, but in fact i am a mostly straight, GIRL!

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To keep it short let's say I'm "a guy" and leave it at that.

I definitely, really like masculine girls.

Not in a fetishistic sense, and not always sexually (the ones I don't find personally attractive, at least leave me thinking "woah, cool"). Nor do I like masculine girls exclusively, I like other sorts of people too.

At times this feels really awkward, because this is something that isn't readily accepted by other people.

Girls that are into other girls can think that I'm fetishizing lesbians, which isn't really true, but obviously I'm not going to stop finding someone attractive just because they have an incompatible orientation, I'm just going to stop any romantic/sexual advances (if I was making any)

Guys that are into girls, and girls that are into guys, are usually just really puzzled than from a set of people, my choice for "top attractiveness" can be consistently different from theirs and clearly along this line.

(Of course there is also a decent proportion of people for which it seems entirely normal and don't give it a second thought! Phew!!)

To me it just feels like it's a type I'm wired to like, among a few others - can't really help it.

I hope I'm not bothering anyone by stopping by to voice my appreciation. If it is the case, my apologies.

Surprisingly /r/feminineboys is more active. I always thought tomboys/masculine girls were more common in society.

Hi everyone. I was wondering if you would take a few minutes to fill out my survey for my capstone project. The link is attached. Thank you in advance. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfvUDZY8_OsAc3BAzGCDJel7t6Upuq5jqbh_9yrlt68cYpehQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

I don't know if this is the appropriate subreddit. But I'm hoping to receive some input. I've always expressed more masculine traits than is traditionally okay for women. I've been thinking lately it's possible I don't seriously identify as a woman? But it's hard to tell if that's just because I don't fit stereotypes for women well. In my experience many butch women feel very attached to their womanhood because it's been questioned and challenged so much. But I don't feel that attached to it nor do I feel dysphoric about female pronouns and being called a women. Does anyone else experienced this? How do other people experience womanhood as masculine women?

Hey there! so, to start off, some background. I was born female, spent most of my life cis-gendered, until I decided to look into different options. Now I live a great life with my wife, and I have been looking into gender-bending. It takes a lot of courage, and I am so awed by those who have the courage to just... be exactly who and how they feel they want to every day. Now for the advice portion! I have PCOS, or Endometriosis, or both, and most of the time it really sucks, but one of the things that comes along with that is that I grow natural facial hair. I used to be embarrassed about it. I thought it made me less of a woman. I have recently learned / realized that I don't have to be a woman to be me.my gender does not define me. So, in an effort to embrace who I am, and how I am, I have been looking into gender-bending, and maybe getting into doing drag. My only issue with my facial hair is that when it grows in, it's really patchy. How do I make it so that it looks natural with the rest of my facial hair, but make it look not patchy? I am so new to this that I have no clue how to do this. help? lol Thank you for reading this far, and for being interested, even if you don't have any advice.

Something new and different was as she took my heart I dated a stud once but before we dated we were just friends we hung out talked about everything chilled smoked got along great she didn't like guys I knew that respected it we really got to know each other it felt like we were friends for years no thought ever crossed my mind to change that she was a wonderful friend we had sleep overs chilled played video games watched movies played sports it was amazing and then it happened we were watching a movie fell asleep got confortable next thing you know when we both woke up in the middle of the night we reliized we were extremely close to each other but we didnt move then as i went back to fall asleep these feeling and thoughts started flowing thru my head that I had never thought were possible thoughts i wuold have never dared to think n then we kissed and that connection was made and it felt STRONGER THEN EVER I had never experienced a connection so strong so hidden that was made with out me even knowing and I feel it's because I really got to know her. Got to know her soul past the physical element and it was the best thing ever I didn't care that she was a stud I didn't care how short her hair was I didn't care what cloths she wore all i cared about was her beautiful soul soon after my eyes began to open i saw how beautiful she really was just the way she was I noticed new things I've never noticed in a women before that were beautiful and amazing I can't imagine the negativity to this type of thing and her wall dropped to me I loved the way that she let me take care of her I love the way she trusted me with herself it was amazing I never appreciated something more in my life she went against what she felt was comfortable in her life for me n my connection to her was so strong because of it i know how hard it was for her to do that she was the type of girl I would eventually marry she has shown me how to really get to know someone n is can another relationship like this be possible again!!! A Male Dating a stud is this impossible or possible i just dont know because im not sure if there are other studs out there like this that date men???? LMK WHAT YOU THINK

I look CISgender, but I'm not...trying to find the most authentic way to self-describe...this is relatively new terminology for me. Thanks!

i have had genital dysmorphia for a long time and i would love a metiodioplasty with urethral lengthening but want to keep my gender female, is this possible?