gerard way being so high profile and openly nonbinary is like…. it means so much to me LOL even before i knew or cared about any of his works i always admired him so much for that
(“Wow! I’m so glad that helped in figuring out your gender identity. I have always been extremely sensitive to those that have gender identity issues as I feel like I have gone through it as well, if even on a smaller scale. I have always identified a fair amount with the female gender, and began at a certain point in MCR to express this through my look and performance style. So it’s no surprise that all of my inspirations and style influences were pushing gender boundaries. Freddy Mercury, Bowie, Iggy, early glam, T-Rex. Masculinity to me has always made me feel like it wasn’t right for me.”)
(“It was really freeing to be able to talk about gender identity btw”)
From his twitter:
(In response to someone asking about his pronouns: “I have always preferred he/they”. It stopped letting me load new tweets literally days before this one was tweeted so unfortunately i can’t fact check this one myself, but I remember this being talked about when it first happened.)
(“There was a time where I was called a girl so often that when I discovered the idea of transgenderism I considered myself to be more of a girl. So I identify with trans people and women a lot because I was a girl to a lot of people growing up.”)
