They have no basis in science, they’re purely political. People say this as a joke, but they really did start on this site. It started as a way for millenials who grew up with their parents telling them they’re special. Now this need to be special has leaked into their adult lives. We have child adults identifying as these abstract genders as a way to be unique. It’s also harmful to REAL trans people. Ones who actually have gender dysphoria, got diagnosed by a doctor, uprooted their entire lives to transition. It makes it seem like all that is just a fashion statement, a trend. If you want to identify as one of these abstract genders, by all means, do so. Just don’t expect people to take you seriously, and don’t call yourself trans.
Also dont lie to your doctor about being non binary so you can get on HRT there is a reason its harder to get on it if your not trans bc funnily enought it isnt essential to u its cosmetic, SO STOP LYING TO UR DOCTORS N PRETENDING TO JUSY BE FTMS TO GEY ON T THE SYSTEM IS TRANSPHOBIC UR JUST A TWAT THAT WANTS TO BE SPECIAL N ITS TRYING TO PROTECT U FEOM FUCKING URSELF UP
Uh NBs lie because we NEED hormones but won’t get them unless we lie, why the fuck are you mad at us for that?
OP needs to read up on the colonial origins of the modern gender binary so maybe his bigoted historical revisionism can be a bit less racist next time, and kiss my actual, diagnosed, on-HRT-and-fundraising-for-surgery, uprooted-my-entire-life-to-transition genderfuck ass.
OP needs to fuck off to hell, but if we’re suggesting reading material for the trip, these utter walnuts might enjoy:
– Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come
the fucking SEMINAL piece that genderqueer activist Les Feinberg published in goddamn 1992, which was what made the word transgender popular for the first time. AS AN UMBRELLA TERM THAT INCLUDED BOTH BINARY AND NONBINARY PEOPLE.
WHICH IS WHAT IT STILL MEANS, IF YOU LOOK AT THE DEFINITION GIVEN ON LITERALLY ANY TRANS ORGANIZATION’S WEBSITE.
They could read all kinds of trans history and activist works by Feinberg. They could read anything by Kate Bornstein, the NONBINARY trans activist who has been writing and educating people about this stuff since the 90s too.
They could read anything by Riki Anne Wilchins, a genderqueer activist who transitioned 40 years ago, started the Transexual Menace activist group around 25 years ago – which they definitely haven’t heard about – and Hermaphrodites With Attitude, which might have been the first intersex activist group? – and founded GenderPAC, one of the strongest trans nonprofits, and was named one of TIME Magazine’s Top 100 Civic Innovators for the 21st Century. Oh yeah, AND started Camp Trans, the camp that protested outside of the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival for years.
(Honestly, almost all the progress we’ve had politically in the US probably stems from the work of nonbinary trans people. I can’t think of a good counterexample, other than maybe now Janet Mock and Laverne Cox, who are both really strong advocates for nonbinary trans people?)
They could read literally any anthology of trans writing from the last 20 years, all of which will have authors identifying as genderqueer.
Fucking hell, I started a listserv (it was like a yahoo group before there were yahoo groups) for genderqueer people 20 years ago. I know somebody who still has the archives of it, if these yahoos would like to read that.
Even The Advocate, which was still doing things like polling cis gay folks about whether trans people should be included in the movement, was talking about genderqueer people in 1999. There were movies about and by us in queer film festivals like Frameline. There was an anthology specifically of genderqueer writing in 2002. This post has a LOT more examples: http://genderqueerid.com/gqhistory
Maybe they mean the word “nonbinary” itself, the you-can-say-it-in-front-of-your-mom version of “genderqueer,” was invented on Tumblr?
I can’t find anything on who coined it in a quick Google search, but i also don’t fucking care, so there’s that.
“Gender nonbinary people are as authentic in their gender status as transgender people who present with more binary gender identities or expressions…. As with people who have binary transgender identities, the process of gender affirmation and transition for those who are nonbinary is for some limited to an internal or purely social process; for others the process may involve a variety of gender affirming medical and/or surgical interventions.” (Which they go on to describe in detail.)
– They could talk to anybody at the queer youth clinic where my openly genderqueer ass (and a LOT of others) transitioned in fucking 1998. Here, enjoy: http://www.dimensionsclinic.org
Nonbinary people are trans. The only people who DON’T know this are the few trans people who are ignorant enough to not have EVEN READ THE STANDARDS OF CARE FFS.
(Obviously, anyone that ignorant is going to support cis people running the show for decades via the outdated and heterosexist SOC in the first place.
Obviously, it’s fucking fantastic and not at all transmisogynistic for them to be upholding what medical gatekeepers say as the end-all, be-all of Who Is Really Trans. Given that the history there, which isn’t even history in a lot of doctor’s offices, is one of forcing trans women in particular to pretend to be straight and high femme before they were even allowed hormones.
But hey, if that’s what doctors want, obviously they’re right, and trans lesbians and bi/pan women, and butch trans women, and queer trans men too, aren’t really trans either. Because that’s what cis doctors used to agree on!
Sure, that’s not what they say now. But they also don’t say that nonbinary people aren’t trans or shouldn’t transition anymore, so who knows what decade these fools’ sources are from!!)
quick survey: please reblog if the way someone chooses to dress themselves has NEVER had a negative impact on your education
I was at school/collage between 1984 and 1997 and was in uniform till 87 then my own clothes till i left full time education in 87 we never got told what to ware in school, only not to have racist,sexist or rude slogens on our tshirts or tops.we could (and did) colour our hair what ever way we wanted (i started year 9 with purple hair and left collage with a bleached blonde pixie cut)the class was mixed sporty, preppy ,hippy, rocker and gothsand we all did well and worked together how we dressed had no effect on our work some times it even helped with conversations in group work .the only people that had problems with our clothing were the pervy teachers and we told them to fuck off if they made a comment “as it wasnt being very inclusive to students.”
I have to add again that, IME, the return this stuff is fairly recent in the US too.
I graduated from HS in 1993, and we never had anything like that. What did get described as potentially “distracting”? The main restrictions I recall: “no hats inside, no obscenities/nudity/obvious drug or alcohol references on clothing”. You were covered to where you wouldn’t get arrested on the street? Fine.
Applied in a totally gender neutral way. Even that one crank of a middle school principal I mentioned there who hated shorts and tank tops (but was fine with any skirt length) didn’t want any students wearing them, period.
They at least didn’t seem to think they could get away with blatantly sexist regulations like that in public schools, even if some of them probably would have been fine with the idea otherwise.
It wasn’t until later in the ‘90s-early 2000s that I started hearing anything about "unnatural” hair colors getting turned into a problem, for that matter. And my mother (who did grow up under similarly restrictive dress codes) was complaining then that she thought this shit was settled by the early ’70s. So many things.
The changes there are still pretty disturbing. Not least because of the creepy attitudes from adults on open display 😨
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