I’ve found Brené Brown’s way of describing empathy, and imo answering this question, helpful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HznVuCVQd10&t=89

Congrats and thank you for sharing!! It seems to me like giving/allowing yourself the freedom to explore is just so, so valuable. We all deserve to love ourselves and feel we can authentically express our identity. 💙

This bit of poetry from Andrea Gibson (they):

I explain my gender by saying I am happiest on the road when I’m not here or there, but in between, that yellow line coming down the center of it all like a goddamn sunbeam.