What is Gender Fluid?

For those of you who are reading my blog and are not quite familiar with what gender fluid means, here's a short crash course:

Instead of two exact points, male and female, think of gender as more of a scale between those two points. Some people fit the extreme, exactly or almost exactly on either of those points. Some may fall more in the middle, and we'll call that point androgyny. Many others fall somewhere else on the scale. Gender fluid people are all over the scale, and where we are can change from day to day or even minute to minute. We may express this through clothing choices, mannerisms, voice, attitude, and even emotionally. Some days we may find we are getting along better with women (or female identified people) than men (or male identified people), vice versa, and some days we get along well with everyone and can easily skip between and translate for both extremes. We may employ any number of special pieces of clothing such as chest binders, packers, hip padding, wigs, silicone breast pads, etc. in order to present as the gender or exact combination of them that we feel we are that day. Because we vary so widely, it's hard to make too many general statements to really describe the actual experience of being gender fluid, but I will be going into my individual experience of it in this blog, and I welcome other gender fluid, gender queer and otherwise non binary folks to weigh in and comment with their own experiences.