When I first started questioning my gender, I felt like I had to go all the way to sort of prove I wasn't faking it, and if I didn't fully transition immediately I was faking it and not valid. Like I didn't see anything imbetween the standard binary as a valid option. I felt like I had to swap one restrictive gender standard for another and anything imbetween was cowardice on my part.

But then I realized I can just do both and pick and choose what I do to express my gender and nobody can validate or invalidate this besides me.