Gynmechanized: When one's gyninity is the inner mechanics of their identity. There may or may not be non-gynine outer functions, but the inside function is gynine.
For @mantra-repeated's women's history month event! Day 5's coining prompt is: piloting, mechanics, and/or astronauteering. The experience part of the event's question is: Those who are neurodivergent, disabled, intersex, and/or racialized, how does this effect your girlhood&? (I crossed out the ones that don't apply to me. I'm technically disabled, but it doesn't apply for this question.)
Being intersex and neurodivergent means oftentimes girlhood and femininity, even though I'm not particularly feminine, are stripped from me and instead I up boxed into a radical other. Instead of being a girl, I'm... a variety of derogatory words I will refrain from repeating so this post isn't content warned to hell. It creates a sense of imposter-y almost, that I'm doing it wrong somehow, or that I don't really count. Outside of perception, though, it doesn't help I never really quite understood what it means to be a certain gender, what differentiates it from others, etc. like how others seem to just innately Get. It's a social construct, sure, but still one others seem to just know. I've found my work-arounds, the MOGAI and otherwise neolabeled community definitely helping, but that beginning confusion definitely plays into how my girlhood manifests entirely.
Tagging: @radiomogai @fem-mogai