Rune’s Story

Rune (they/them)

My coming out story is more to myself rather than to others. I thought I was a cis person for the longest time, but something kept nagging at me. I always tried to dress more masculine and for a long time when I was little I only dressed in boys clothes. I was called son, and boy all the time, and as someone who was assigned female at birth I wasn’t sure how to feel about that. I didn’t know being trans was an option. Years later I learned I was queer, learning to love myself and who I was deep down. I decided to try new pronouns, deciding to go from she/her to she/they, and when a close friend used they/them pronouns for me, I realized that I wasn’t cis, and that it could feel really good to be yourself. For a long time, I ignored the feeling, suppressing it, trying to ignore it. I didn’t think I’d be excepted and by some people I haven’t been, but there’s always something positive you can take away from an experience. Now, almost two years later, I have learned to except myself as Nonbinary. Im happy to be who I am, and Im learning to be okay with others not accepting me, because I learned to accept myself. I’ve met some of the nicest people who where trans, and it’s made me beyond happy to express and learn about my identity and people who feel similar to me. It’s okay to be queer, it’s okay to be different and even more importantly it’s okay to be yourself.