#assignation

[fashioninpaper]

[howifeltabouthim]

And if I don't see you there, where am I to see you?

Anthony Trollope, from Can You Forgive Her?

[girl4music]

Just in case it’s not obvious to cishets

Heterosexuality is a sexuality

Cisgender is a gender

It’s literally in the name

HeteroSEXUALITY

CisGENDER

Stop with the vague talk. You’re not fooling anyone.

[evilhorse]

So again, maybe it’s me, but this seems like Hawkwoman’s looking for some super action.

[illustrationartgallery]

Assignation by Dmitriy Lyalyakov

[americaneldritch]

A coloring of The Love Note by Konstantin Somov, for his 1907 erotic Rococo novel, Das Lesebuch der Marquise (The Reader of the Marquis), written with Franz Blei. 

[girl4music]

Well, a baby isn’t born into a sexuality or gender in the first place. They’re assigned one that they’re expected to just accept is what and who they are. Conditioning them to see themselves a certain way whether they are that way or not. So what’s the difference?

You’re right, there is no child in the world that is explicitly any of these identity labels… So then they shouldn’t be assigned one right from birth in the first place. How about we don’t gender the baby as soon as it comes out of the womb regardless what genitalia they have? Maybe then they might not feel the need the change their gender. Because they won’t have one to “change” in the first place.

These restrictive and limited identity labels of gender/sexuality are the issue. Your claim is that a 5 year old doesn’t explicitly identify by any. You’re right. But they are ASSIGNED to one before they even take a breath.

The answer is to abolish gender and sexuality identity labels altogether. Get rid of the notion that such concepts as “gender” and “sexuality” exist. And that does include HETEROSEXUAL and CISGENDER because those are identity labels too. And let people identify and declare whatever gender or sexuality they feel like they are instead!