Summary: If you ask Cherish Blackmon about her gender, you won’t get a simple answer. “Well, on the inside, I definitely identify my masculinity, but I also acknowledge my feminine on the outside because I know that God has given me the privilege to experience the opposite body of what I originally am in this lifetime," she said. "I feel like I’m both, but it feels like one.” As for her sexual orientation, Blackmon says early on she knew she was attracted to women.