#elsegender

[anentitee]

y’all cannot be making points about the trans community by solely focusing on transmascs and transfems. other expanses of transness and gender-nonconforming experiences along with their differing labels/expressions exist and deserve to be recognized

[neopronouns-in-action]

So can we start calling this the progress trans flag and using this, or is that too radical a concept for people in 2023?

[ID: A version of the progress trans flag with eight horizontal stripes of: purple, black, blue, pink, white, yellow, black, and brown. In the center are concentric circles of black, dark purple, and gold. End ID.]

Explicitly include nonbinary and intersex people in the trans pride flag. Not just “including nonbinary people” as a single single white stripe for people with “neutral” genders that 99% of people don’t even know is for nonbinary people, and instead think is there to represent transitioning.

If you want support nonbinary people, one small step is to explicitly include us in the trans pride flag, and not just by lumping all of us together into a single “neutral” category that seems like it’s only there to separate the pink and blue stripes.

I’m tired of binary people, both cis and trans, promoting exorsexism and erasing and speaking over nonbinary people. If the pride flag can change to explicitly include and support trans people and people of color, then the trans flag can change too.

Being trans is not just for binary men and women. It’s not just for perisex people or white people. It’s 2023. How about we put the most erased parts of our community front and center in the trans community, and how about the rest of the trans community be proud to fight with us?

There are three main versions of this flag, with the most simplified version up top.

Symmetrical version:

[ID: Three versions of the trans progress pride flag, both with symetrical horizontal stripes of purple, black, blue, pink, yellow, white, yellow, pink, blue, black, and purple. The first version includes a brown sideways chevron, followed by a gold triangle of the intersex flag, with the dark purple circle in the center. The second version has a brown diamond in the center, with concentric circles of black, dark purple, and gold inside it. The third version has only the stripes. End ID.]

The white and yellow stripe on this six-striped version are reversed so that the white stripe, like the black, is easy to see against all background colors.

[ID: Two versions of the six-striped version of the trans progress pride flag, with stripes of purple, black, blue, pink, white, and yellow. The first version includes a brown sideways chevron, followed by a gold triangle of the intersex flag, with the purple circle in the center. The second version has a brown diamond in the center, with concentric circles of black, dark purple, and gold inside it. The third version has only the stripes. End ID.]

Here is the web archive link where you can download the HD versions of these flags, including the symbols:

“https://archive.org/details/progress-trans-flag”

Do not add images to this post unless they include a plain text image description in the body of the post directly below the image.

ALT text is not accessible for everyone who needs an image description. Plain text image descriptions are the most accessible option. That’s why I used an image description and not ALT text.

Please also do not suggest replacements or variations of this flag that leave out the black, white, purple, or yellow. They were all chosen for a reason. You can add other colors if you want, but removing the purple, yellow, black, or white is just as egregious as removing the blue or pink would be.

The black, white, yellow, and purple all represent forms of identity outside the binary. Combining the black and white into grey erases so many people and completely misunderstands the purpose of those stripes.

These are the baseline colors for the flag, you can customize them via less saturation, darkness, ect, when making art or using it for your own purposes. You do not need to color pick directly from this flag any time you use it.

Edit 12/10/23: go read this post too.

[themaveriqueagenda]

it bothers me when people use "gendered" synonymously with "binary gendered"/"male/female/masc/fem gendered", because that still implies that those are the only two options, the only two real genders, when in fact there are so many people who are gendered in ways those people probably wouldn't comprehend. like, i have seen people describe maverique as "not having gendered feelings" before, which is only true if you mean binary gendered (and neutrally gendered), which only works if you think male and female are the only existing genders. it's subtle, but it still has implications.

same goes for "nonbinary people don't want to be gendered". i mean, yeah, a lot of us don't, even those who do have genders, but others very much do. i want to be gendered as maverique, just not as binary. that's part of why i use neopronouns rather than they/them, because to me, my neopronouns feel gendered in a way that's specific to me, whereas they/them pronouns are often referred to as non-gendered pronouns.

of course, most people will only know to view me in a binary-gendered way or in a non-gendered way, so i choose non-gendered, but that doesn't mean that me and many other non-binary people are necessarily non-gendered ourselves.

gendered =/= binary, as there are more than two genders.

[fuchsadler]

A Thing That Bugs Me In A Specific Type Of Headcanon

First and foremost: I'm personally a big fan of headcanons and have quite a few myself

But there's something about a specific type of headcanon that really bugs me: That people more often then not will immediately resort to they/them pronouns for characters they headcanon as elsegender/non-binary of some sort (this specifically excludes instances of fanfic where the character said to use those pronouns, in that case it's fine)

Yes, there's a lot of non-binary people using exclusively they/them pronouns

But there's also non-binary people using exclusively she/her pronouns

There's non-binary people using exclusively he/him pronouns

There's non-binary people using exclusively it/its pronouns

There's non-binary people using exclusively neopronouns

There's non-binary people using multiple sets of pronouns in whatever combination

There's non-binary people using no pronouns at all

And there's the fact that pronouns are for everyone, so anyone of any gender can use any amount of whatever pronouns they want!

[rjalker]

And one version of the post with just the simplest version.

Here's the expanded post.

Here's the web archive link to download this flag, and the other versions, in HD.

The trans progress flag, created to explicitly include intersex people, nonbinary people, and people of color.

This flag is public domain because I created it and I said so. You are allowed to do anything you want with it, including sell things you make with it.

The only thing I ask is that if you share it to other sites or repost it, copy and paste the image description I am including below.

[ID: The trans progress flag, with stripes of purple, black, blue, pink, white, yellow, black, and brown. In the center are concentric circles of black, purple, and gold. End ID.]

These are the baseline colors for the flag. You are under zero obligation to color pick directly from here when making art or crafts.

Do not add undescribed images to this post. If you are going to add images, they must include a plain-text image description in the body of the post. ALT text is not accessible to everyone who needs an image description.

[inaturalist-propaganda]

June 1st, 2023, day 8 of the iNaturalist staff proving how much they hate trans people:

iNaturalist staff, who literally get paid to be decent people, have decided that calling out transmisia is malicious, but purposefully being transmisic and purposefully misgendering trans people isn't!

Check my pinned post for more information and ways you can help!

[imoga-pride]

Genderelse/Gendernot

Gendernot: having an experience that is not gender, but something else. I.e. a boynot would not describe boy as one’s gender, but something else.

Genderelse: feeling your gender is also something else. E.g. a girlelse would feel se is a girl AND something else. So you still be that gender identity, but you also have another identity, genderly or not.

[themaveriqueagenda]

currently, the top post when you search tumblr for "maverique" is one where being on testosterone is equated with (trans)masculinity, and i wish people wouldn't use the maverique tag for posts in which people are called "transmasc" or "transfem" based on physical or social or legal transition steps, or simply not equate transition steps with certain identities. i'm not saying maveriques can't be transmasc or transfem, but part of maveriquehood is quite literally a disconnect from both masculinity and femininity, so it's extra weird to tag us in (trans)masc/fem-centric posts (that shouldn't be called that in the first place).

i'm maverique and i have consistently been misgendered by other gender-diverse people based on my transition steps, based on my AGAB and the assumed direction in which my transition is going. and funnily enough, this collective misgendering has actually stalled my transition because the assumed masculinity barely left me any space to explore further, i had to be masc or i was just cis.

instead of gendering transition steps based on cissexist and bioessentialist ideas (yes, flat chest = masculine, oestrogen = feminine etc. are literally recycled cissexism), we (you) should start to actually, properly include maveriques and everyone else who is misgendered based on transition steps.

people think transmasc and transfem are super inclusive terms but they're basically diet binary.