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Pride Month?
Gyrre:
On the topic of pride, since most of the forummites are probably more knowledgeable on this than me, is there a hard binary between bein binary and non-binary? {Yes, I'm asking for myself.)
Wombat:
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 02 Jul 2022, 18:05 ---On the topic of pride, since most of the forummites are probably more knowledgeable on this than me, is there a hard binary between bein binary and non-binary? {Yes, I'm asking for myself.)
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I'd consider moving this discussion to this thread in the Relate section, but I'll reply here to be sure you see it.
To the question, "Is there a hard binary between being binary and non-binary?": In short, no, I don't think so.
I am nonbinary. Whatever is or isn't going on with my gender, I consider it outside of the gender binary. But that isn't the experience for everyone. My friend group, for instance, is almost entirely nonbinary, but the way we experience it is different. One of my friends identifies as transmasc, while another identifies as trans (just trans/transgender, nothing after it), another genderfluid.
Most relevant to your question would probably be the idea of transmasc identity. Transmasc or transmasculine people identify with masculinity, and may or may not identify as male. Similarly, there are transfem(me) or transfeminine people who identify with femininity, and may or may not identify as female.
There are also people who describe themselves as nonbinary women or nonbinary men. I don't personally know anyone who describes themself that way, but they're terms you might look up.
I'm also curious if, in your question, you were thinking "being binary" in the context of being binary trans or as being a binary gender in general.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Wombat on 02 Jul 2022, 18:50 ---
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 02 Jul 2022, 18:05 ---On the topic of pride, since most of the forummites are probably more knowledgeable on this than me, is there a hard binary between bein binary and non-binary? {Yes, I'm asking for myself.)
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I'd consider moving this discussion to this thread in the Relate section, but I'll reply here to be sure you see it.
To the question, "Is there a hard binary between being binary and non-binary?": In short, no, I don't think so.
I am nonbinary. Whatever is or isn't going on with my gender, I consider it outside of the gender binary. But that isn't the experience for everyone. My friend group, for instance, is almost entirely nonbinary, but the way we experience it is different. One of my friends identifies as transmasc, while another identifies as trans (just trans/transgender, nothing after it), another genderfluid.
Most relevant to your question would probably be the idea of transmasc identity. Transmasc or transmasculine people identify with masculinity, and may or may not identify as male. Similarly, there are transfem(me) or transfeminine people who identify with femininity, and may or may not identify as female.
There are also people who describe themselves as nonbinary women or nonbinary men. I don't personally know anyone who describes themself that way, but they're terms you might look up.
I'm also curious if, in your question, you were thinking "being binary" in the context of being binary trans or as being a binary gender in general.
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Dead thread. But if the mods choose to move this, I'll graciously acquiesce.
I know I'm not trans. Just not entirely male. I thought I knew myself pretty well, but recent meditations and reevaluations suggest I haven't really thought enough about my gender. Ever since I learned what specifically spivak ptonouns are, it's been nagging at me that 'he/him' isn't as 100% for me as I once thought.
hedgie:
For me, it was one of those realisations of what I’ve always known/experienced, but just now got some of the words and such. But I know that I’ve never been “one of the guys” (except, perhaps on a certain gross (in all senses of the word) anatomical level), and more than just on the surface level. I’m more comfortable, at least at a deep and connected level around women, but I’m not one of them, either.
John Allenson:
For me, I have a severe autoimmune disease and for some reason the haemotologist looked at my chromosomes. Then they did more tests of my blood and the inside of my mouth.
And that's how I found out I'm Intersex.
(And what a spectacularly FUGLY flag for Intersex!)
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