Non-Binary Noise

This is a blog dedicated to non-binary topics. It'll mostly be definitions, related sites and reposted articles of relevance with a short comment but I might have an opinionated post of my own every once in a while. If you can think of anything else I could include, let me know!

[ruibird-deactivated20170901]

since it’s a scary time to be trans: refuge restrooms is an app which maps gender-neutral/single-stall restrooms. it’s community-mapped, so it’s possible you might be the first person to log the restroom locations, but hopefully it’ll help some people.

please reblog this post if you’ve got trans followers. stay safe.

[shanology]

For my non-trans followers: please consider getting the app just so you can add neutral restrooms to the map when you run across them. Simple way to help.

[waywardmasquerade]

NOTE: Two weeks ago there was a terrorist attack here in Aotearoa/New Zealand. I’ve held off putting up the next giveaway because they require quite a bit of energy and I just haven’t had it to give. Normally I would reply to every entry personally, but I’m still pretty rattled, so if I don’t reply to your entry, please don’t think I haven’t gotten it. I see you, I’m just a bit slow off the mark at the moment.

Non Binary Pride Giveaway

To celebrate finalising the Non Binary Pride Dragon Bagon, we’re giving one away, and the awesome folks at Heartbeat Dice are also donating a super cool set of NB Pride dice to go along too ^_^.

Non Binary and other Pride Dragon Bagons, and Heartbeat Dice are also available for preorder here

Ideally we would like this gorgeous wee dragon and the beginnings of their dice hoard to go to a member of the NB community. There’s no way we can police this (and I have no intention of trying), so all we’re asking and relying on folks to be honest about their intentions while entering. We also don’t want folks who aren’t out to be excluded. So entry will be by private message only, and we will only be announcing the winners name with their express permission, otherwise we will simply announce that there is a winner. We’ll be picking a winner around the the end of April.

SPREAD THE WORD

We want to get the word out, so if you feel comfortable doing so, please share this far and wide, let your friends know, privately or publicly, whatever works for you.

HOW TO ENTER

Just like/follow us and send a message via twitter, tumblr, or facebook to let us know you’d like to enter. We’d love to hear about your gaming experiences or your love of dragons, or if you’re entering in the hopes of giving a dragon to a friend, but that isn’t essential and you don’t need to share anything you aren’t comfortable with :).

SHIPPING

If you’re in a country that may have issues with shipping (NZ, Australia, US, and the EU are usually fine), please let us know and we’ll see if there’s a way we can sort it out. I can’t promise we can get a parcel absolutely everywhere but we’ll do our best.

We will be covering shipping to most places as we normally do with giveaways. If the parcel is going to somewhere super expensive to ship to we may have to work something out, but it’s never been a problem before.

FUTURE GIVEAWAYS

It’s our hope to do a giveaway to celebrate each pride design we release. I can’t speak for the far future, but for the moment there’s more giveaways to come.

DESIGN FEEDBACK

If you’re part of the LBGTQIA+ community and you’re on facebook, we have a beta group for our pride designs. The purpose of the group is to get feedback from the relevant people as we work on different designs. You can join here :)

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Instagram/Facebook/Twitter/Tumblr have no affiliation with this giveaway.

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[Two images: One with a predominantly purple dragon with yellow, black and white details, functioning as a dice bag with yellow drawstrings.

The other is a plain white background with an assortment of dice with differing number of sides, also in black, purple, white and yellow]

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Mod Post - I Still Exist!

Hey guys!

I appreciate that it’s been a fairly long time since I’ve posted anything here and I know a lot of work still needs to be done to improve this blog but thanks for sticking with me!

~ The Only Mod

[intergalactic-ashkenazi-deactiv]

Trans and Non-Binary Jews on Tumblr!

So I’m taking a Jewish studies class this semester that requires a semester paper, and I decided to write about trans and nb Jews, since I am one. The questions I’m trying to address in my paper are “How do trans and non-binary Jews represent themselves and their intersecting gender and religious identities? What is the impact of trans Jewish theology and practice on the broader Jewish community?” I know there are a good number of trans Jews on this website and I wanted to open these questions up to you guys. If there’s anything you think I should include, or if you’re willing to let me interview you, please send me a message!

transjewry I think a lot of your followers could probably help me with this

[nandbaremyfavouriteletters]

Hey folks,

Take a read of this and see if it’s something any of you would be interested in contributing to. If it isn’t something that you, personally, can/want to contribute to, perhaps you could maybe share it so that more people can see it?

~ The Only Mod

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Scottish Parliament TV

Scottish Parliament TV

Brandi Lee from LGBT Youth Scotland and the Scottish Transgender Alliance manager James both gave evidence this morning to the Scottish Parliament Equalities and Human Rights Committee. You can watch what they said here. The talks include conversations about the importance of inclusive education, appropriate mental health care provision, and the importance of legal recognition for non-binary people

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Spanogender Pride Flag - Mod Enquiry

Hello everyone,

I’ve had a few enquiries into a Spanogender Pride Flag and, I have to say, I’m finding it quite difficult to find one. Do any of you know whether one exists or where I could find one?

If not, would any of you like to make one?

Let me know!

~The Only Mod

[nandbaremyfavouriteletters]

I’m just giving this a boost, as I haven’t yet come across one. 

~ The Only Mod

[heterophobicleia]

support all trans people

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[three images with plain pastel colored backgrounds and white text. they read:

“support trans boys” “support nonbinary people” “support trans girls”]

[oasis-for-the-gays-blog]

Hello again sweets!

I thought I’d go ahead and clarify what this blog is about a little! I made this blog in the hopes of helping people who fall anywhere in the catagory of queer find people to befriend/date.

As someone who lives in a somewhat rural area (for now), I know it can be hard to meet queer people irl.

Also! I noticed a couple people were a little confused about the submission process, I’d like for you to fill out the application form (a link to it is found on the sidebar of the blog, you can also go to oasis-for-the-gays.tumblr.com/application) So if you submitted already without the application, I’d super appreciate it if you could fill that out and re-submit!

So yes! Im super excited to start posting submissions this afternoon! So go ahead and send them in! Dont be shy

[oasis-for-the-gays-blog]

reblogging bc time zones!

[oasis-for-the-gays-blog]

Hey everyone!

We’re officially open! I’d be super happy to have some signal boosting so I can get some submissions in! I’m also looking for potential mods for if this gets bigger! C:

[nandbaremyfavouriteletters]

Self described as:

“ A BLOG FOR ALL PEOPLE OF QUEER IDENTITIES TO FIND SIGNIFS AND/OR FRIENDS!”

I’ll be reblogging the more descriptive version of what the blog is about momentarily. The blog has just started but seems like it could be a promising way to meet other people in the community.

I just thought I’d make sure were all aware of it. As I often say, just letting you know!

~ The Only Mod

[realtransfacts]

Fact #278: If you come out to your family and they don’t accept or support you, know that it’s not your fault. Your gender is still real and you are still deserving of respect, no matter what they try to tell you.

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Spanogender Pride Flag - Mod Enquiry

Hello everyone, I've had a few enquiries into a Spanogender Pride Flag and, I have to say, I'm finding it quite difficult to find one. Do any of you know whether one exists or where I could find one? If not, would any of you like to make one? Let me know! ~The Only Mod

[allcatsareautistic]

Support trans autistic people who can’t present the way they want to because of sensory reasons

Support trans autistic people who use binders and other body shaping garments to pressure stim

Support trans autistic people who have trouble updating their scripts to use their new name and pronouns

Support trans autistic people who can’t react quickly enough to correct people who misgender them

Support trans autistic people who took a long time to realize they were trans because of impaired self awareness

Support transmasculine autistic people who feel like they’re perpetuating the stereotype of autism being an “extreme male brain” disorder

Support transfeminine autistic people who have their gender invalidated for the same reason

Support all trans autistic people

[autistic-monsta]

Support trans non-binary autistic people who have their gender or lack thereof invalidated & not taken seriously whatsoever because of our autism also! 

[andreii-tarkovsky]

We didn’t have a word for our, as you guys call, gay/lesbian people. So we coined that word as an umbrella for all our tribes. We never said, “Well, you’re transgender. You’re bisexual. You’re lesbian.” We never knew those terms. Those are all from Western culture, you know, LGBTQ and all that. So on some level, it’s about getting rid of labels. Those terms were forced upon us.

[neutrois]

Ve said, xe said: A guide to gender-neutral language

A growing trend to adopt inclusive language takes shape at schools nationwide.

An article from a mainstream publication (USA Today) about gender neutral pronouns that actually uses gender neutral pronouns in its text when referring to the people interviewed! 

[outforhealth]

This is a real solid 101 piece on pronouns.

[nandbaremyfavouriteletters]

The comments are predictably less than great but this is a good article.

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systemgender is a gender that only exists in fake systems, because alters are completely separate and have their own individual genders. if someone can be all of their alters as systemgender suggests, they're not a system. the notion that it does exist and can be applied to real systems is incredibly ableist and absolutely disgusting.

As I am not part of a median system, nor do I have a full understanding of all that being a part of a median system entails, I would just like to put this out there and you can all collectively come to your own conclusions.

~The Only Mod

[this-sure-is-a-blog]

Nonbinary system here. The term systemgender is not only completely unnecessary, but misleading as well. The term was made popular by websites like MOGAI-Archive that comes up with the most ridiculous sounding “genders” that have no actual relation to gender identity at all. Like cloudgender. Symptoms of disorders are not genders! If someone is having difficulty determining their sense of identity because of depersonalization, that is the result of the disorder itself and not an actual gender identity. Systemgender falls into the same category. Being a system is a symptom of DID or OSDD-1. While alters can have their own gender identities, and there can be several conflicting identities within the same system, there is generally not one overall encompassing gender. They may present as one specific gender, but this is usually a defensive mechanism to avoid detection, not the system identifying with a specific gender as a whole.

And if there are several nonbinary members in a system, why not just say the system is nonbinary instead of inventing a new word that makes no sense and really only exists for extra snowflake points? The word nonbinary works just fine here, and individual alters can hold their own identities within that. We’ve got guys, girls, a transmasculine member, a feminine agender/nonbinary member, a strict agender member, etc. But trying to squish us all into one identity of “systemgender” makes no sense, especially since any sort of blending between members is a symptom of dissociation and/or integration, not an identity. I’m just as offended by the concept of “systemgender” as an alter in a DID system as I am with “autismgender” present on the same site you sourced as someone who is autistic. So is systemfluid. Of course gender identity will change based on who is fronting, that’s the whole point! So is traumatagender. Our trauma did not change our gender(s).

So if you’re not actually part of a system, please do not further distribute, endorse (which you’re doing by posting it here without criticism, regardless of the disclaimers of how you’re leaving it for “people to come to their own conclusions”) or confuse people with concepts like systemgender when they make no sense and erase the reasons why there are many genders within systems.

-J (of SN)

[nandbaremyfavouriteletters]

Duly noted. I was stepping into matters that I was uninformed about and I will remove the post immediately. I apologise for any discomfort or offense that I have caused with this posting and for my spreading of misinformation.

~ The Only Mod

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Yinyang ren (陰陽人) - In China, yinyang ren are people who have an equal amount of both feminine (yin) and masculine (yang) qualities. Usually this means gender nonconforming and bisexual, but can also mean transgender or intersex.

Nonbinary.org

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X-gender (Xジェンダー) - In Japan, this is a common transgender identity that isn't female or male.

Nonbinary.org