Shout out to the nonbinaries who:
Conform to sex-based or gender-based stereotypes because it’s easier
Are gate-keeped from being “actually non-binary” because they don’t present “androgynous enough”
Present as your birth sex because it’s easier
Don’t understand their gender either or lack the words to explain it
Have mental disabilities / disorders which cause a lot of struggles
Must have the energy to get up everyday and present the way they feel because otherwise they’ll feel shitty all day and have no energy for anything else
Don’t know if they can call themselves transgender because it always feels like they’re starting a fight or they’re not trans enough
Use an average name over their birth name
Choose not average names names like “Twig / Pebble / Stick / etc”
Use names of characters they kin as their name
Don’t know what the hell to call their sexuality
Use neopronouns because they don’t have gender-neutral pronouns in their language
Use neopronouns because they and its and he and she just don’t feel right
Don’t know if they experience dysphoria and say they know it’s written to be a disorder and they don’t want to self-diagnose
Know they experience dusphoria despite it being a disorder
Are scared to say they don’t know if they have dysphoria because they don’t want to get yelled at
Don’t exactly know what dysphoria feels like because they don’t feel it in suckish extremities that others do and describe
Don’t talk about their dysphoria because it’s not well understood about their gender and how dysphoria works with them and it’s different for everyone and it’s just exhausting
Feel gender is a private matter and will fill out their assigned gender on papers because they don’t feel everyone needs to know
Don’t remember note their gender as something that makes them oppressed because they face many types of oppression
Subtly do things that note their gender, whether it’s making bracelets with the flag, or wearing specific shoes for those who’s gender varies, etc etc
Don’t have the wardrobe to present how they want to
Don’t have the money to present how they want to (including money for haircuts!!)
Experience hair dysphoria but don’t say it out loud because it seems like such an “easy fix” but there’s reasons why you can’t get your hair styled the way you want
Aren’t out to their parents
Have marginalized genders
Use non-binary as an umbrella term
Use non-binary as a specific term
Are told “oh you’re probably x” when you describe your gender but you know you aren’t x because some part just doesn’t fit right and it’s hard to put it into words
Need someone to help them figure out the right term
Align mostly but not fully with their assigned gender at birth
Actually read this whole thing / liked / reblogged it
Didn’t actually read this whole thing but smashed reblog / like when they saw non-binary Pride
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