#gender 101

[ichosebotheveryday]

These are two rocks. They were made in different ways. They have different names to distinguish how they were made.

One of them is a "sedimentary" rock.

The other is a "metamorphic" rock.

Maybe the "metamorphic" rock was "sedimentary" once, but it isn't anymore. Maybe it was just always "metamorphic".

"Sedimentary" isn't a slur against the other rock. It's just a name to distinguish it from "metamorphic".

They are still both rocks.

[neurodivergentrebel]

Autism & Gender 101 - My Trans Nonbinary Autistic Experience with Autigender

According to one study that included 641,860 people: "people who do not identify with the sex they were assigned at birth are three to six times more likely to be autistic as cis-gender people."

Patreon members and YouTube channel members had access to this video on April 12, 2022. The video’s public release will be June 22, 2022. Thumbnail image is of Lyric, a pale skinned nonbinary human, with short green, yellow, pink, and orange hair, with fresh shaved sides. They are sitting in an RV with dark wood panel walls. In front of them the words “Autism & Gender 101 ” in pale blue & green…

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[neutrois]

List: If People Talked About Other Things the Way They Talked About Gender Identity

Fiction: “It’s either a short story or a novel. There’s no such thing as a novella.” Subatomic particles: “Now they’re saying they discovered ‘tetr...

Ice cream: “Avocado is not a valid ice cream flavor because I’ve never heard of it and it does not appeal to me.”

Water: “Water is H20. Ice might parade around pretending to be something different, but we all know that it’s also H20 and therefore also water. It’s chemistry.”

Colors: “The cultural imposition of boundaries on a color gradient has nothing to do with it. A rainbow has seven colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, and another kind of purple.”

These are hilarious. 

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

butch women and other gnc women deserve so much respect and care. women who choose to defy long-standing rules about how women can look and act face so much risk just to be themselves, and deserve feminist solidarity.

traditional femininity is devalued because of misogyny but it’s also enforced compulsorily because of misogyny, and resisting the power of that force is a bold and beautiful act. it’s important to recognize that compliance with gender roles isn’t what makes a woman a woman, and visibly defying them by being butch or gnc doesn’t reduce the impact that misogyny has on a woman - and often intensifies misogynist violence.

be good to your local butch and gnc women, especially butch/gnc trans women, intersex women and women of colour for whom defying compulsory femininity is even more dangerous.

we’re all in this together, yk? as women we all have different and often complex relationships to femininity and that’s to be expected when it’s simultaneously enforced and devalued. doesn’t mean we gotta be on different sides.

[101queer]

the whole idea of dividing people into tme/tma is bullshit. it's not real. it's a weird fake tumblr thing and it literally doesn't work the way anyone who uses tme/tma thinks it does.

tme means transmisogyny exempted

tma means transmisogyny affected

most trans and nonbinary will be each of these at varying stages of their transition and cisgender intersex people are sometimes transmisogyny affected and gay men can be tma and trans intersex people regardless of how they present and identify can be tma. these aren't neat little boxes you can put people in and it's not useful to describe people as such.

transmisogyny is absolutely real, to be clear. but tme and tma are not useful or real identifiers and are mostly used in the same way afab/amab is and we really need to stop trying to reinvent gender binary especially in ways that continue to hurt intersex and gnc people in both old and new ways

[mental-mona]

How Many Genders Are There — And Why Does Talking About The Spectrum Of Identity Matter So Much?

Lack of representation in the media doesn’t mean you're not normal.

[dailyallytips]

Allies: Looking for some basic vocabulary help? This image barely scratches the surface, but it'll get you started. If you know who the original source is, please let us know. We would love to credit them here.

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Image Description: A colorful grid four squares wide and three squares high shows a different vocabulary word and its definition in each square. From left to right then top to bottom, the words and definitions are as follows:

Bigender - identifying as two genders

Genderfluid - gender changes

Trigender - identifying as three genders

Neutrois - gender neutral

Agender - no gender *Also genderless or neutrois

Androgyne - having both masculine and feminine qualities

Demigirl - identifying partially as girl but not wholly

Demiguy - identifying partially as guy but not wholly

Transgender - identifying as a gender other than the one assigned at birth

Cisgender - identifying as the gender you were assigned at birth

Genderqueer - outside of the gender binary

Non-Binary - outside of the gender binary *Used as an umbrella term or as its own identity

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

I’m exhausted seeing major publications fuck this shit up so here we go.

(actual/real/true) gender: a self-chosen label for your own experience in a world that divides people into social categories called gender

assigned gender/sex: the gender adults told you you were since you were a child (this is NOT a shorthand description of what someone’s body is like!)

gender roles: social rules and stereotypes about the way people “should” divide their interests, work, appearance, habits and abilities along masculine/feminine lines

physical sex characteristics/genitals/sex organs: the body parts involved in reproduction, or, sometimes, the body parts people attach gendered expectations to

“Male”/ “female” sex organs/characteristics/etc: not a thing! people of any gender can and do have every kind of body part - sometimes combined with body parts you gender differently! Just say the parts you mean and skip the inaccurate euphemisms bc they do not apply

sex/biological sex: a rough, inaccurate, and outdated shoehorning of people with a wide range of physical sex characteristics into two (rarely, three) constructed social categories as a ridiculous attempt to pretend everything is binary and gender is biological. Skip it. You can talk about gender as relevant and body parts as relevant but please give up on trying to assign gender to body parts, it is a Bad Idea.

intersex: intersex people’s bodies (naturally and without intervention) differ from the constructed “biological sex” template via hormones, internal or external organs, or chromosomes. just like anyone else, intersex people can be trans or cis.

trans/transgender: transgender people are a different gender than their assigned gender. just like anyone else, trans people may have any of a wide variety of body parts.

cis: cis people still claim the gender they were assigned at birth. just like anyone else, cis people may have any of a wide variety of body parts.

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