#nb tag

[theoldgaylion]

My 10 years old self watching X-Men series for the first time: wow!!!! I love these movies so much!!!! :)

Me now, after I've discovered I'm queer and nb and so X-Men always been relatable to me on a deeper level than any other superheroes group because there is an inherent queer subtext in their story being mutants who fight for their right to live in a society that hate them: wow!!!! I love these movies so much!!!! :)

[wikipedie]

im like if a girl was a boy

[romanceablenpc]

[heathercollinsmd]

non binary kid has my heart ❤️ (they all do)

[kieumy-archive]

Hi!! Just want to let you all know I’m gonna be using he/him pronouns in addition to they/them and she/her. I just want to try it out and see how it feels like. You can use whichever but I would definitely appreciate it if you use they/he more. Thank you!!

[nazyalenskyy-archive]

Authors b like "aha I'm so inclusive of the lgbt community." but forget trans and nonbinary people exist.

[vantasei]

happy tdov to:

> trans enbies who dont intend to medically transition

> trans enbies who will never be able to present as the gender they identify as

> trans enbies who use they/them as a catch-all pronoun

> trans enbies of color

> and me 💖 (they/them)

[enbyboiwonder]

Much as I love Blue Period, I really don’t think I can continue going into the tag or interacting with the fandom on here. I am so fucking tired of seeing people deadnaming Yuka and reducing their identity to “binary trans gal” when it is so obviously (and canonically) more nuanced than that. I really should know better when it comes to series with canonically trans/nonbinary/genderqueer characters, but it seems I don’t. Though I don’t know if the HnS fandom was actually better with Yuu, or if it’s just that I was late to the party and thus wasn’t there to see people misgendering and deadnaming them after the ep that reveals they’re not cis and giving their “hot” (a.k.a. terrible) takes. Anyways.

It’s true that binary men can wear feminine clothes because they like them and want to without feeling a connection to femininity or wanting to be seen as a woman, and that binary women can wear masculine clothes because they like them and they want to without feeling a connection to masculinity or wanting to be seen as a man, and that while clothes can be a method of expressing gender, that’s not always the case. And with real people, you often can’t know which it is unless they tell you because you don’t know them, you don’t know what’s in their heart. But we do get to see what’s in the hearts and minds of fictional characters, and it’s clear that Yuka does use clothing as a form of gender expression.

No, I don’t know what their exact gender is (and possibly even they don’t either, nor does anyone need to). Their gender could be both male and female, or it could be somewhere in between, or fluid, or neither. For all I know, if they lived in an English-speaking country, they’d label themself as a trans gal and use he/him or he/she or he/she/they pronouns. Or maybe something else entirely! But what’s important is, Yuka does feel a connection to both masculinity and femininity. They absolutely fall under the nonbinary umbrella and could use that label if they wanted to (or “x-gender,” the Japanese equivalent, not to be confused with “genderless,” which has to do with looking androgynous, not with actual gender). They’re happy wearing whatever clothes they please regardless of their assigned gender while presenting femininely and using 俺 (ore, the default masculine personal pronoun), and they’re happy with people seeing them as a girl as long as the people they care about and are close to understand that “girl” isn’t all there is to their identity. That is their true self. We can see that.

So it’s incredibly frustrating to see people label Yuka a trans woman solely because later in the series they start using feminine pronouns (あたし atashi, the feminine reading of the standard 私 watashi, used mainly by women but also sometimes by queer men who feel a connection to femininity) and dressing and living entirely as a woman, when it is so clearly a mask. It’s difficult for nonbinary individuals to live as themselves in this still-largely-binary society. Even if all your closest friends and family fully accept and support you, that doesn’t mean that you’ll have an easy time of it in society. And Yuka decided that, in order to make it in this society, they couldn’t live as their true self but rather would have to live as a binary individual. They decided they would be happier forsaking their connection to masculinity and living solely as a woman than forsaking their connection to femininity and living solely as a man. It’s easier for them to be a binary woman who’s attracted exclusively to men than someone who’s both masculine and feminine and is mostly attracted to men and also sometimes to women. But that doesn’t mean they’re happy living like that and it certainly doesn’t mean that’s their true self, and it’s so obvious that they’re not.

But you don’t have to relate to or even understand their struggle in order to see that “Ayukawa Yuka, binary trans gal” isn’t the true Yuka. Even Yatora, who doesn’t really understand Yuka but has come to accept them anyway (and is kind of an idiot besides) could tell that something was wrong and that Yuka wasn’t living entirely as a woman because that’s what they truly wanted to do in their heart.