I Wasn’t Born Trans

Rori Porter
7 min readOct 14, 2021

I was born a fucking baby.

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What is the difference between cisgender people and transgender people? Well, cis people, for one, align with their gender assigned at birth. But what if we didn’t assign genders in the first place? What would the difference be then?

There wouldn’t be one. We’d just be people living our lives, free from cis/hetero-patriarchal standards of gender. If we weren’t assigned a…

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Rori Porter

Queer Transfemme writer & designer based out of Los Angeles. She/Her/They/Their. Editor of TransFoc.us Anthology. RoriPorter.com