"I just love being a personality as myself, I think it's enough and I blend gender enough to be entertaining enough and eye-catching enough so it works," he said."
"Just what anybody wants. I just basically live life as me. And if anyone wants to call me something they can, I'm not bothered really. It's more like everyone else, make them feel comfortable and I just live as myself, really."
"[I've been] more vocal about it in the past few years, more visually like that the past few years. I've always seen myself as that since I was a kid but I didn't know what that meant and how to articulate that until I got the vocabulary and got in the community and stuff," they shared."
"feel like they've been born in the wrong body"
Sam, 27, a Zumba instructor and musician known as Smashby, identifies with a flexible gender expression and lists pronouns he/him, they/them and she/her. Sam explained a preference for being a personality as themselves rather than performing drag, describing a blended gender presentation as eye-catching and entertaining. Sam said they "live life as me" and are unbothered by labels, prioritizing others' comfort. Sam said they have become more vocal and visually expressive in recent years after gaining vocabulary and community. Housemate George raised concerns about a gender "ideology" influencing vulnerable children and mentioned people who "feel like they've been born in the wrong body," and Sam pushed back, correcting misinformation about healthcare for transgender youth while noting ambiguous genders have existed without past labels.
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