Portable writing (2 of 12)

I'm not sure why so many people war texts on their clothing and on their skin. Perhaps they feel that such portable writing serves to...make a statement about who they are. Some people choose their clothing very carefully every day, while others just throw on the first thing they find, but I would venture to say that the majority of us choose clothing we like to have in our wardrobe (what we have accessible to us to wear). Tattoos are a different story, I think. Every person I hvae ever met with a tattoo (that I notice), I ask about it. Tattoos almost always mean a great deal to the people I've spoken with. It was something very important/with a lot of meaning to them for them to even consider getting it permanently inked into their skin. I think clothing might be less of a permanent statement about ourselves than tattoos. But to some people, clothing is a way of life...Although the experience for transgender* people differs by individual, for me, clothing is my statement to the world that my gender is not defined by society's cookie cutter outlines. For other transgender* people, however, clothes can tell the world that individual identifies as a particular gender not typically associated with their genitals.