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Chibi Italy or Chibitalia in Hetalia.
Hu is seen as a gender neutral chibi with a male body but female clothes and acts like a girl but never pronounces gender, growns up as a feminine man. Feliciano Vargas in Hetalia.
[Submitted by loveleopluradon]
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Er: isn't sibling already a gender neutral term?
by AnonymousYes? I don’t really understand this question - I never said it wasn’t?
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Alternatives to girlfriend and boyfriend: there's the term 'birlfriend', which I really like. ^_^
by xstealthyxThat’s a good one, thanks. Added to the list. :)
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Hi! My name is Jess and I was wondering if you would be willing to signal boost my new submissions blog, transbears? It's a blog for self identified trans* bears and cubs of all gender identities and bodies and I'd love to start getting more submissions! Thanks :)
Hi Jess, I’m more than happy to signal boost!
Any bear/cub followers, here’s a blog you should go have a look at!
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High-res →
Argentina JUST PASSED a groundbreaking gender identity bill!!!
From now on, people will be able to change the name and gender on their ID without needing psychiatric permission or any body modifications. Furthermore, anyone who does want hormones or surgery will be able to access them for free through the public and private health system.
It was passed unanimously today by the Senate :-D
Go Argentina! Other countries, take note.
(via thecuntmentality)
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Living with a non-binary gender
I feel like there’s a lot of misconceptions or stereotypes about how non-binary people actually live. The most popular idea of a genderqueer person is someone who lives and passes 100% of the time as their gender assigned at birth, followed by the image of a person who is seen as a binary trans person who has transitioned but identifies as genderqueer in addition to identifying as trans wo/man. I don’t have either these experiences, so I thought I’d give an idea of what my life is actually like.
I identify as third gender. I do not identify as transgender, but I say I live in a transgender role because I choose to not accept and live in the gender I was assigned at birth.
Most people who are important to me know that I am nonbinary, including my main social sphere. There are certain circles of people I interact with who think I’m male, certain circles who think I’m female. Some think I’m cis, some think I’m trans, but I’m fairly positive all read me as “gender non-conforming.” It is difficult for me to pass as cisgender anything.
To my school’s administration and the government, I am the gender I was assigned at birth, but my name is legally gender nonspecific. People I meet on the street tend to be befuddled by my gender, and it’s difficult to make generalizations of how I am perceived. Many people I have only brief relationships with (such as my teachers) know me as generically “transgender,” with little specification of what that actually means to me.
I make an effort to inform everyone who I will be having significant interactions with that I am not cisgender; I generally leave it up to them how to interpret that. Except in situations where it would be unsafe or inappropriate, I refute implications that I am male or female.
I do not have “internal” male privilege; I sometimes receive male privilege when read as male, but it is usually tempered by also being perceived as queer or non-conforming. I sometimes receive oppression targeted towards women when read as female, but I neither feel comfortable nor am welcomed into women-only spaces. I never enter male or female only spaces at all. Except when legally required, I decline to choose male or female on forms, even if this means missing out on things.
I use only gender nonspecific bathrooms because I have the privilege of doing so at my university; otherwise I use male and female bathrooms more or less equally depending on situation. I often am forced to create my own social space, including mannerisms that mix male and female or are neither, clothing (especially creating appropriate nonbinary formal clothing), and ways of speaking.
These are just some of the ways being non-binary gendered manifests in my daily life. There’s lots of other stuff I haven’t addressed (for example, the way my gender manifests in queer versus straight spaces, or depending on the racial composition of my environment). If anyone has questions about my experiences, I’d be happy to answer them, keeping in mind however that I prefer to not mention my assigned sex on the internet.
(via neutrois)
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You know what’s funny?
Nobody ever seems to say, “Gender doesn’t exist, therefore all these labels are arbitrary and meaningless, therefore it doesn’t matter what I call you, therefore I have no reason to use any terms other than the ones you choose for yourself. Neither I nor no one else has a horse in this race, so the way you identify is all anybody has to go on.”
Nobody even ever seems to say, “Gender doesn’t exist, therefore I shall not recognize anyone as men or women, but refer to everyone using gender neutral terms and pronouns regardless of their preference.”
It’s always, “Gender doesn’t exist, therefore, I shall basically interact with everyone in the same way as the vast majority of the population who believe that gender does exist, except for being a little bit more pointed about it when I dump on trans* people.”
I’m not saying there aren’t any decent, respectful people out there who are “gender agnostic”, as one radfem/MRA put it when justifying her trans* outting/hitlist website. But they’re not the ones who feel the need to go around telling people that gender doesn’t exist.
(via dearcissexism)
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Non-binary folk should like/reblog this
So I can follow you and love you for forever.
(via thecuntmentality)
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30 Day Genderqueer Challenge
gqid:
Many of these could have “Why or why not?” added at the end, and for length sake pretend “or lack of gender” is added after every instance of the word gender (for the agender folks).
Adapted from the 30 day Trans challenge and the 30 day [GSM] challenge. I wanted something a little more personal.
1) Do you use any other terms to define or explain your gender?
2) How did you grow up with your gender?
3) What’s your favorite ways of upsetting gender roles / genderbending / genderfucking?
4) Name some queer heroes, influences, or crushes
5) Dysphoria and how you manage it
6) When did you realize you were Genderqueer?
7) What are your favorite physical features of yourself?
8) An unpopular or unsure opinion about the GSM community
9) What have you done or plan to do to socially transition? Pronouns, name, coming out, etc.
10) Are you taking any steps to physically transition?
11) Your first experience with a GSM organization or event
12) Discuss your relationship with the term transgender
13) How has your family taken it or how might they take it?
14) Are you part of the Gender and Sexuality Minority community?
15) How do you deal with gendered things? Clothes shopping, bathrooms, forms, etc.
16) Name some media you connect with queerly
17) How do you, or would you, deal with being misgendered?
18) How does your gender factor in to your future plans?
19) What terms in the cisgender, GSM, or trans* community are problematic?
20) Have you faced any problems or gone through any changes regarding religion?
21) How has your relationship with yourself been affected since you realized you were Genderqueer?
22) What is your sexual and romantic orientations? Are they affected by your gender?
23) Do you feel comfortable answering questions about your gender to friends? Acquaintances? Strangers?
24) How has your relationship with the cisgender people in your life changed?
25) Your first queer crush or relationship
26) Discuss how your clothes do or don’t reflect your gender
27) Write a poem about being Genderqueer. (if you struggle, try a haiku, acrostic poem with your name, or just a stream of conciousness paragraph)
28) Who are some people in your life, on or offline, who make your life better? Your relationship doesn’t have to be related to queerness.
29) Some positive Genderqueer experiences
30) What does Genderqueer mean to you?
Could be fun to try! Note that some of these may be problematic or un-doable depending on individual identity. Be creative and have fun with it if you decide to do it!
Have fun, followers!
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30-Question Outside The Binary Challenge
The thirty questions can be answered all at once, one a day, or on any particular schedule. Please tag your answers with #30qoutsidethebinarychallenge.
- What is your gender identity?
- What are your preferred pronouns?
- Do you have a sex identity, and if so, what is it?
- What’s your sexual orientation?
- What intersections do you have with being outside the binary?
- What does your gender/s mean to you?
- Has your gender/s ever changed?
- How has your understanding of your gender/s changed?
- Do you feel you have a full grasp on understanding your gender/s yet?
- How do you come out as your gender/s?
- Do you have facial dysphoria?
- Do you find it worse to have social dysphoria or bodily dysphoria?
- Do you consider yourself FtM or MtF? Why or why not?
- Does it bother you more to be misgendered as the sex you were designated or assigned at birth, or to be misgendered as the other binary gender?
- Do you have any politicized identities, such as Muslimah or Latino?
- Do you have preferred pronouns in other languages than English? If so, what are they?
- Are your gender/s fluid or static?
- What would you want on a government ID card?
- Do you consider yourself trans, trans*, transgender, transsexual, or some combination of those terms?
- What symbols for your gender or being outside the binary do you like best?
- Do you like the transgender flag? Why or why not?
- Are you proud of being your gender/s?
- Are you proud of not being the sex you were assigned/designated at birth?
- If you could have been called any pronoun as a child, which pronoun would you want?
- If official forms had lines instead of boxes for gender, what would you write?
- What kinds of microaggressions do you receive most often?
- Are you stealth off the internet, or out to a few people?
- Do you have any mottos related to your gender/s.
- What’s your favorite 101 for people outside the binary, or even cis people?
- What are your dreams regarding your gender/s?
And, a
non-binaryoutside the binary challenge, too! Have fun, followers.Note: while this is a 30 day challenge, it’s titled 30-question challenge. I don’t what the difference is, if any, but don’t forget to use the tag :)
