TRANSGENDER REVELATIONS

I Was a Guy Pretending To Be a Girl, Pretending To Be a Girl

This is going to get a little weird

Sanjay Singhal
5 min readJan 1, 2024

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A cat, using a laptop and laughing
On the internet, nobody knows you’re a cat — Midjourney

I can only tell this story on Medium because nobody knows me here. If you thought you knew me before, this will… undermine that.

It all started with a meme. Something like…

On the internet, nobody knows you’re a cat.

So I was in this mindset. I can be anybody on the internet. And there was this video game I was obsessed with, World of Warcraft, on the internet. But you played with real people.

When I created my character, of course I picked a guy, because I’m a guy, and I wasn’t trying to be creative.

Two hours and a dozen deaths later I said to myself, ‘This is fun, but I’m spending a lot of time staring at a guy’s butt running around. I think I’d rather stare at a girl’s butt.’

My next character was Starrani, an unreasonably attractive female blood elf.

A female blood elf from Warcraft, viewed from behind
Close enough — created in Midjourney

So far, whatever right? Here’s where it gets interesting.

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Sanjay Singhal
Sanjay Singhal

Written by Sanjay Singhal

I write about how to manage your career and life by telling stories about how I've botched my own career and life.

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