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i have another genderqueer character for you! it's gren, from cowboy bebop. grencia mars elijah guo eckener. he goes by male pronouns during the show, but *spoiler* he was forced to take an experimental drug while being a prisoner of war that upped the estrogen levels in his body, giving him breasts and adjusting his fat distribution, making him have a more binary feminine appearance. (continued in next ask)
by Anonymous(continued from last ask) when cornered by one of the main characters after she spied on him in the shower and asked him what he is, he succinctly said, “i am both at once and i am neither one.” i find that describes me so well it hurts a little. but anyway, there’s another character for you!
Thank you! I’ll add him to the list.
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is anyone else tired of seeing just skinny white boys with beards in dresses?
Yes! Thank you.
Pictures: photoset of black presumably a guy with black hair and facial hair, stretch earrings, a gold cuff bracelet, a wooden necklace, black knee high platform boots, and a blue dress.
I love pictures of dresses as a masculine thing, and it’s great to see someone other than skinny white boys, as costumepartypolitics said :)
(via genderfork)
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WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW, GENDER ROLES?
This is actually probably the best way to do things.
Picture of two doors, one with a sign that says “RESTROOM -WITH- URINAL” and one with a sign that says “RESTROOM -WITHOUT- URINAL”.
(Source: ethantate, via thecuntmentality)
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genderfluid people can experience dysphoria, including body dysphoria. i know many genderfluid people who feel they'd be more comfortable if they could alter parts of their bodies, to varying extents. not all genderfluid people are in the same situation as that anon, but it's not a unique experience. i know a lot of nonbinary people who feel the same way or similarly about their genitals, even though they're not male (or not 100% male).
by Anonymous -
if the anon is willing to invest in a wetsuit maybe that'd work? pros of a wetsuit: probably the least gendered option, provide warmth, full body cover, inconspicuous, excellent for swimming and ocean sports (cis women's bathing suits mostlyaren't). cons of a wetsuit: relatively form-hugging, somewhat expensive, warm, the safety of binding under one is unknown. many cis surfers (men and women) wear rash guards under a wetsuit for comfort. a rash guard by itself or as an extra layer might help
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Thank you so much for your blog! Right. I understand that gender is like a scatterplot. It's not a tangible thing (but it does get expressed in tangible ways), and therefore isn't on any sort of spectrum. But is sex? The way I imagine it, there's a 2D spectrum that has "female" and "male" on either ends, and intersex in the middle. Though "female", "intersex" and "male" aren't points to be achieved, rather, it's a range (Of course, the dividers would be arbitrary). Is this a good way to think?
by AnonymousThose both make sense. I think the sex graph/spectrum would have to have space outside of intersex, for transitioning bodies… Transition doesn’t go via intersex, after all. It’s complicated, but if the spectrum helps it make sense, it’s a good way to think.
Maybe somebody who is mid-transition or only transitioning in certain ways (ie hormones but not surgery etc) could how they think transition would fit on a physical sex graph?
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The Frisky: Some Transgender Kids Have It More Figured Out Than The Rest Of Us
An article in response to another article. Oh, but I’m mentioned in this one!
Thanks to so many kids identifying as trans at such a young age, the dialogue and culture around trans identity is shifting. Where 10 or 20 years ago, the discourse around transgendered living was about “passing” (…) many transgender kids are now rejecting that model. Instead, they prefer to live in the murky in-between.
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Okay, so why should non-trans people care about what’s going on in the trans community? Because the debate around “passing” as one gender or another and the discussion about what makes someone masculine or feminine impacts everyone.
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High-res →
Adorable pronoun buttons for conference attendees (at University of Colorado Boulder)
Picture of a box of buttons/badges, with a card that says “choose the button(s) that apply to you!” Some of the buttons/badges are pinned to the card, and they say “she”, “ze”, “use my name”, “mix it up”, “xe”, “don’t use pronouns”, “no pronoun preference”, “they”, “any pronoun works” and “he”.
(via gqid)
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white house petition to recognize non-binary genders.
“Legal documents in the United States only recognize ‘male’ and ‘female’ as genders, leaving anyone who does not identify as one of these two genders with no option. Australia and New Zealand both allow an X in place of an M or an F on passports for this purpose, and the UK recognizes ‘Mx’ (pronounced “Mix”) as a gender-neutral title.
This petition asks the Obama administration to legally recognize genders outside of the male-female binary, and provide an option for these genders on all legal documents and records.”
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Do you have any advice about bathing suits? I haven't been to the beach in a really long time and I really want to go, but I can't figure out what I can wear that won't make me feel uncomfortable. I'm DFAB, so men's swim trunks won't work, and women's bathing suits trigger a lot of dysphoria. I just want to be able to swim...
by AnonymousIf women’s swimming costumes trigger your dysphoria, definitely don’t wear anything like that. It could be possible to wear men’s swimming trunks or shorts, and a t shirt, which you often see lifeguards wearing. It might be possible to wear a sports bra or other less-constricting top that has a slight binding effect under the t shirt, too.
