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On this mega I shall take the opportunity to rant about one of my favorite things: the Webnovel UNJUST DEPTHS!

Do you love transgenders?

Do you love communism?

Do you love queer romance?

Do you love killing fascists in a giant fucking mech?

Would a plotline with all of these things happening in a underwater retro-futuristic gundam setting intrigue you?

Especially if its actually really well written with good characters, rich worldbuilding, and a marxist leninist transfem author?

All of the answers should be: YES I DO ~~or else I WILL BAN YOU~~

Since you obviously love all of those things then Unjust Depths is perfect for YOU yes YOU! It is DESTINY

The Imbrian Ocean is at a time of severe instability. The monarch of the vast Empire that spans its unjust depths (:3) is sick and nearing death, every territory of the ocean now vying to carve their own Destiny out of the chaos. From the Volk fascists pigmask-off , Zionists hamas-base (they literally will not die why are they still here oh my god), The 'Anarchists' (social chauvanists) lenin-dont-laugh in Bosporus, and the monarchs gui-trans of each vast noble domain, each vies for power and prestige no matter who they crush underfoot, but it would be a pretty depressing story without a bright light in the dark.

On the edge of the Empire sits the glorious Union! The (Soviet) Union soviet-chad is a socialist federation of three states (and one anarchist mountain left-unity-4 )that were formerly slave colonies under the Imbrian Empire until they broke away in a fierce liberation war. They have spent the last 20 years since then building themselves up. Whether they be Human bridget-disco , Shimmi kbity-how (Catgirls who usually follow a religion closely related to modern Islam), and Kattaran transshork-happy (a hybrid humanoid species with characteristics of sea life ranging from sharks to cuttlefish)building socialism side by side.

First lead under the revolutionary leader Dashka Kansal, then the Idealist Ahwalia who lead the country to near ruin in pursuit of building a utopia on pillars of sand, then under the scientific socialist three-heads-thinking leadership of the Grand Marshall of the Union, Bhavani Jayanskar (I love Jayanskar so much shes basically as if Stalin, Lenin, and Zhukov were rolled into the same person but was a black lesbian badass who wore the uniform REALLY WELL)(she aint the main character at all tho shes only in very few scenes i just love her so much). Under Jayanskar, the Union has been growing their economy to both eliminate hunger and give everyone a home chad-stalin , but also growing their military capabilities for the inevitable return of the Empire. The Union is alone, but with the people by its side nothing, not even Destiny, can snuff out true freedoms light. specter

As war wages between the Empire and Republic (basically underwater USA) once more over the lands between them, the facade begins to finally crack...

And a border conflict between the Empire and Union escalate, and the dreaded reconquest begins.

Amidst this turmoil, lives our main characters (yes there are multiple and all of them are lovely). Each of whom I personally love dearly, and are very well characterized. Many are soldiers of the Union, some are scientists, some are divers (mech pilots), some are lost strands finding new meaning after joining this band of Brigands

All are Communists steban

All serve the Union USSR

All would gladly give their lives to defending socialism comrade-stoic

but even they would have little inkling of the adventure set in store for them as the lands beneath the waves erupt in fire, fury, and revolt

Can these transgender badasses kick fascist ass?

Can they kiss? (oh my god please kiss ISTG THERE IS SO MUCH SHIPPING AHHHH ITS GLORIOUS)

FIND OUT HERE: https://unjustdepths.com/

please do or else I will pout incessantly

just try it pleeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase i need to talk to someone about it after Cromalin went AFK

(I miss her, she was a real one)

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[–] gaystyleJoker@hexbear.net 0 points 4 months ago (4 children)

currently ordering custom funko pops of your favorite queer rep

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[–] Lerios@hexbear.net 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

things that are based: some random person on here months ago who saw that my pronouns are hy/hym and changed their comment to call me a based kyng instead of a king. they edited it back pretty quickly but i saw that comrade and don't worry i thought it was funny i love you

things that are less based: i went to an irl event recently that was very vocally pro-lgbt and had a bunch of pronouns pins. there were a million she/they and he/they, but not a single she/him or he/her, which i think are the only pronouns i'd ever be brave enough to use irl. many such cases smh πŸ˜”

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[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Long ass "dump the stuff that's weighing on my brain out into writing" post

mental health stuff, alcohol cessation, social withdrawal/APD? Not sure what to tag for that last one.

Have been really anxious and having a lot of trouble with sleep lately and irritability lately and feeling burned out and having a short fuse, but I've been trying to practice shit I've learned from therapy before and separate impulsive thoughts and negative automatic thinking patterns from my sense of self (like, not "ugh I'm such an irritable miserable bitch" but "I have a lot of difficult shit to deal with and it's understandable that someone in my position would be frustrated and have a short fuse sometimes and that isn't some inherent flaw in my character," etc)

Trying to be appreciative of little things that go well or I enjoy or make me notice improvement in myself

-Have stayed dry for more than a month for the first time this year. Feel like I've turned a corner mentally where I just associate alcohol with how awful I felt after my last binge and feel repulsed by booze now because of that association instead of still craving it sometimes after previous attempts staying sober after getting through withdrawals. Was offered some red wine at a dinner and turned it down. I probably would have drank it in the past rationalizing it as "just one glass in a social setting" and "not a big deal," then basically doing the Barney Gumble "it begins" thing and relapsing afterwards with vodka, and I didn't and wasn't really even tempted, so go me. nyet

-Have been better about skincare. Found a moisturizer that agrees with my sensitive gay baby skin and am pretty happy about that. Instead of stinging my face, it doesn't bother me going on, then like gradually turns into the skin equivalent feeling of the nice glow feeling your mouth gets from a pleasantly spicy food? If that makes sense?

-Got some nice music recs I'm looking forward to checking out and have revisited some albums I really like that I haven't listened to in years and had a good time remembering

-Have been thinking about how to spend the money I've saved quitting drinking and am considering getting a mid gaming PC (the newest vidya I've played is X360 stuff lol) and/or music gear (either a lunchbox low watt tube guitar amp or a modeling rig) that's kind of exciting to me

-Mentally am trying to work through some of my hermit tendencies and whether I have avoidant personality disorder and how to work through that. Learned that a once very close friend that I fell out of touch with during covid that I learned is going through some really rough shit and is depressed and I'm struggling with how to approach reaching out to. The longer I've been out of contact with someone, the harder it is for me to think of how to try reconnecting and I feel extremely guilty and sad for how we lost contact. I still deeply care for this friend and felt like they were like the sibling I never had, we just intuitively understood each other in a way I've never had with anyone and were the first friend I made after coming out who only ever knew me as me not (dead name.) I want to rekindle our friendship but I feel so guilty for drifting away from them in the first place that thinking about how to make contact again after years feels so overwhelming and I feel like however that goes I'd probably have an ugly crying type meltdown.

Thanks for reading my bullshit if you made it this far lol, sorry for the wall of text and diarypost

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[–] rtstragedy@hexbear.net 0 points 4 months ago (9 children)

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but I've been trying to practice shit I've learned from therapy before and separate impulsive thoughts and negative automatic thinking patterns from my sense of self

First, that's good, congrats! I used to have a really self-deprecating internal monologue and it's finally gotten better over the years, but I still have bad times. Like literally weeks ago I encountered the idea that the thoughts in my head are thoughts, not facts. For some reason, ... this helped me?

(either a lunchbox low watt tube guitar amp or a modeling rig)

shit, tell me more. I currently have like an ancient thing and I've been on the lookout for something new. What are you considering?

The longer I've been out of contact with someone, the harder it is for me to think of how to try reconnecting and I feel extremely guilty and sad for how we lost contact.

ow I feel called out for this

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[–] Tomboymoder@hexbear.net 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Someone on here a bit ago was talking about having this, so I wanted to go back and try it.
Edit: the spice is manageable, I think eating chips with it made it worse.
I wasn’t completely dying, but I do think it’s spicy to the point where it hampers your enjoyment of the flavors and eating.

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[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I love all my transfem friends and it breaks my heart that every single one of them have a plethora of intense trauma and mental illnesses no matter what race, socioeconomic upbringing/current, career path, social life, etc.

On one hand it's very nice to have people that can relate and accept my level of fucked up but at the same time I'm starting to understand the elder trans women who've said they try to avoid trans/queer spaces/people because of how heavy it can be

[–] rainn@hexbear.net 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm kind of desensitized to it all, but maybe cause I'm dissociating from myself lol and I always had a tendency to enggage in 'therapist talk' with people

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[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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[–] rtstragedy@hexbear.net 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

oh those are really cute pics! Thanks for sharing

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[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 0 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Gay Baby Cuddle Puddle!!!!!

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[–] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I wonder what yall would be like as roommates

Am I gonna be secretly smoldering because you never do the dishes or your day for the cat litter boxes, am I gonna be secretly turning off the furnace so I don't get overheated (WHO TURNS THE HEAT ON IN A HEATWAVE, ITS 40Β° OUT), am I gonna get weirded out by you insisting that we all need to eat together every night, am I gonna have to ask you to please keep the fucking noises down I have to work a night shift please don't be so loud for once

Or, maybe, you would all be cool and it would be ME who was the problem 😱

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

it would be you because im perfect πŸ’…

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[–] lilypad@hexbear.net 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Lol i do my dishes unless someone else has filled the sink with dirty ones, then I just put some water in them and set them to the side, cause Im not gonna clean up after someone else makes a giant mess (my housemates are terrible at this, they just, ugh, i love have dishes overflowing out of the sink because multiple people made individual giant dinners and none of them cleaned up after themselves for 3 fucking days (im not sour about this at all ralsei-pout))

You may get pissed because i want the home as cool as possible... So i run the ac even when its maybe not needed (10Β° is when it is officially chilly. 10Β°-15Β° is cool. Anything above 15 is warmish and bad. But im also a giant hypocrite and wear sweaters. I just like to be warm and cold at the same time i guess).

I wont clean cat boxes if they arent my cats and we havent discussed it. Or feed them unless theyre missing meals. Im fine with the labour but i need people to fucking talk to me about it. Dont text me an hour after their mealtime asking me to feed them every day, ask me before you leave if I can feed them this coming week (i had to explain this recently...). Ill almost certainly say yes, but im not gonna be on call for someone elses pets. Ditto on the cat boxes (but less of an issue cause its less often). (Of course emergencies are a different thing)

I wont insist on eating together, but i will insist we use plastic or wood because metal on ceramic is like an ice pick in my soul; when the cops find the bodies and arrest me, tell them it was justified.

I wont be overly loud, but I will watch my stories to fall asleep to, and theyll stay on until like 2am, so idk if the walls are super thin we might need to have a convo.

I also might knit you hats and knicknacks and maybe a bag, cause its fun ^^

You may get angry about the bathroom though, i have lots of stuff and no organizational skills... But I clean the toilet and shower and sink regularly so idk.

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[–] Eco@hexbear.net 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

pro tip for all dps players: make sure to move around as much as possible to make it a challenge for the healers to restore your health, even when you're not under attack. put a wall in between if you can

[–] Eco@hexbear.net 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

i got mad at a genji oops. spamming "i need healing" while dancing in front of my face making it impossible to hit him

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[–] CrookedSerpent@hexbear.net 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I touched on this in another thread but wanted to share here.

CW: controversial? Musings on my own personal experience of being trans by happenstanceUnlike most trans people I've met, I am of the belief that I am here now, living life as a stealth trans woman, as a direct result of my environment, not because of some internal gender that was always there. I am convinced that if I wasn't relentlessly bullied, harassed, degraded, beaten, and rejected by my peers as a child (due mostly to racism and homophobia) I would not have even thought to transition. I feel as if I consciously decided to become a woman at my lowest point, 4 years ago, simply as a way to kill the broken, unloved and unlovable husk of a person with no childhood, and no hope for the future and become someone, anyone, else. I dipped my toes in the water of experimenting with my presentation, and I was surprised by how easily I was able to pass, which only fueled my desire to transition solely as a way to save my life, which simply could not have continued as the broken "man" I was. I was on the brink but I saw a way out.

I started doing everything in my power to dress fasionably and femininely, went crazy hard on voice training, researched all I could on DIY hrt and how to source it, in an effort to pass at all costs. It was working shockingly well, and in a few months, long before I had even self identified as a women, I was passing as a women, very consistently, and for the first time in my life, I was able to be okay. I was able to feel confident in myself, express myself, not hate everything about me, because I wasn't me anymore, I wasnt that broken THING I left behind, I could start over, and it was the most beautiful thing I have ever experienced. Living this way, passing as a woman while still secretly identifying as a man in my own head, slowly but surely over the course of a year, my internal gender literally changed into that of a woman, and one day, I actually, truly belived it with every fiber of my being, long after the world arround me did. It's funny looking back, and a bit embarrassing, but after all that, 4 years later I am more sure that I am a woman than literally anything else about me, despite my recollection of events, and am positive that transitioning not only saved my life, but finally allowed me to enjoy it. However, I am almost positive that had my childhood been full of love, acceptance, and happiness, I would have never even considered transitioning. It very well could be the case that I am simply rationalizing away my "inherent transness" but that's just my current take on it. Anayws, just felt like I wanted to get that off my chest and maybe hear the thoughts of other trans people on that whole ordeal...

[–] CrookedSerpent@hexbear.net 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Okay I just read this back like 5 minutes later and I'm completely delusional, I just described what being trans is, lol nevermind

[–] rtstragedy@hexbear.net 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

have you read the Gender Accelerationist Manifesto? https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/vikky-storm-the-gender-accelerationist-manifesto It helped me frame some of the cognitive dissonance I felt in my identity, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.

[–] lilypad@hexbear.net 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can I ask how it helped you frame things?

[–] rtstragedy@hexbear.net 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

sure! stop me if i've told you any of this before, but I transitioned over 10 years ago at this point, and I've always struggled with identifying as a woman, and I could never really figure out why. Like it would be patriarchal to take that label for myself or something.

I was talking to a doctor and she asked me how I identified and I stumbled all over myself. Am I a woman? What is a woman? Can I really call myself one if I was socialized male? Prove it? What does it really mean to be trans? Nobody has scanned my brain and looked at the white matter or whatever to see if I'm Really Trans, and I've never gotten a chromosome test, either! To other people, these answers may be easy, but to me, I was unable to really feel genuine inside the mainstream canon about gender.

I like to be accurate when I'm describing things, and myself, so I was left frustrated with all of the popular queer and progressive descriptors. "Trans women are women" - yes ok, but what is a woman? I'm clearly different from the cis women I meet because of a vastly different life experience. What is a woman? Someone who is not a man? What is a man? A miserable pile of secrets? I have a lot of secrets. Or is it that a man isn't a woman? This kind of circular logic went around and around in my head, and the best answer I has was "A woman is someone who fits the gender role and expectations of women in society" which just seems really unstable as a foundation because society changes, different around the world, and fuck I don't want to just do what society tells me, and I don't want to try and cram myself into womanhood either, I want to be authentically me, instead of mediating my gender for cisheteronormativity.

Then, someone mentioned the Gender Accelerator here. I read it. I was accelerated. Suddenly, I found a foundation with which to understand all of these complicated feelings I'm having. Gender is a class structure, created to divide out reproductive labour. Of course it is! Three, five, etc. gender societies exist because they have unique ways of splitting reproductive labour! Finally, this integrated those questions I had about them for me!

And ... well, even "biological sex" is a construct. This fucking changed me. I'm an enby now. All my books have bright orange covers, I read about ace-spec identities for fun, and I refuse to label my gender except to be like "idk, demigirl maybe lmao." This one document answered all of my confusion about how to label my actions regarding transition and what felt right to me, which is why I recommended it here in this post. Maybe others would have a different experience, or not be able to relate. Maybe some disagree with my perspective, I'd love to hear it if so.

I dont identify at all with any masculine labels, I never did. But I could never really feel like I could claim the mainstream concept of "woman" or "female" either. So, I kinda just wasn't happy for years.

[–] lilypad@hexbear.net 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for writing up your thoughts! Theres some parts here that really make sense and parts that are a little confusing to me.

You said youd love to hear disagreements, and while I dont know if I have any of those, K do have thoughts i guess and ill put them here.

maybe shit opinions? Also super rambly... Talking about language and identity.

Like it would be patriarchal to take that label for myself

I dont understand this bit? Perhaps im misunderstanding and this is where you were at and not where you are at in your thought processes? Cause to my mind, a man removing themselves from that class and placing themselves in another class that is lower on the patriarchal hierarchy is inherrently non- or even antipatriarchal. Cause that system depends on its rigidity and punishes those who transgress, anyone who moves outside their class is engaging in non- or antipatriarchal movement.

Regarding womanhood, idk, i see the accelerators view as the one that makes the most sense, as a class under our gender system. And like, for myself, i wander between i guess woman, woman-adjacent, and agender/wtf-is-gender-stop-asking-me-weird-questions.

To me ig, woman is a label that is both applied to me by the outside world and that I apply to myself. Perhaps its cause I really like being femme, and the labour of the woman-class (under our gender system) is labour I do most often. I guess to me its not an issue of being a woman, but rather an issue of performing womanhood coupled with being seen as a woman. To be clear, the performance is not in a "person performing" kind of a way, but rather that the performance makes the person. And by "being seen", i perhaps could say it better as being recognized in/for your labour. Because its rooted in a class system concerned with perpetuating not just individuals but society, womanhood and manhood and any gender cannot exist in a vaccum or without being seen by others. Or I guess, it could be in the sense that one observes onesself? Like, thats what were doing when we apply labels to ourselves, were observing ourselves as we would another, just with the added benefit of knowing our internal states far better than anyone else could. But the performative nature of identity is supee important imo, and to me explains a lot of my thought and feeling about who&how I am.

I guess an issue in what Im saying is that our language isnt suited to describing gender in this way; we speak of being a man/woman/enby/etc., but we should rather (imo) speak of it in a non-stative or otherwise transient way. Idk the verbs to do that without being clunky. Gender fluidity can kind of be used this way, but because of our language its still spoken of in a stative manner, and using it in that way feels wrong, because its misappropriating a stative label to describe a nonstative experience.

reject markov chain interpretations of self, we cannot divide a person infinitely into a series of states, we are not a computer!

even "biological sex" is a construct

This one was primed into me before I read the accellerator. I understood it as "sex is inherrently nonbinary and is a phenotype; its best thought of as a bimodal distribution of traits". None of those traits are inherrently male/female. The missing part for me was that sex arises from gender, not the other way around. The accelerator brought me further into understanding this better. Like, imo we can re-sex ourselves. For a binary example, a penis can be a deeply feminine sexual organ, a vagina can be likewise a deeply masculine sexual organ, depending on how we apply gender to it.

Ok that got real rambly, and idk really how to conclude this, so uhhhh ill close by saying gender is fucky and we should roam free among the hills and plains of it, not be confined to penns and fenced in areas.

[–] rtstragedy@hexbear.net 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

damn i fucking live for posts like yours, let me get in there

there's gonna be some brainworms discussion here

Like it would be patriarchal to take that label for myself

So, this was a reference to a moment I enjoyed from Orange Book, but it is honestly something I've felt. This is some Janice Raymond shit that I've internalized from being on the internet most of my life. I am working on this (which is why I'm reading Orange Book and why I enjoyed being accelerated so much), but it's stubborn, and I do have this feeling of "invading women's spaces" in changerooms etc. I simply do not go to women's spaces.

I was in the hospital a few years ago due to gallstones (ow btw), and I was in the ER at first, but eventually they moved me to a surgical ward, and I honestly did not know until I saw it on a form somewhere that this was a capital W Women's space. I felt uncomfortable - I don't belong here, I'm not a "real" woman, do they know I'm trans? Do I pass too well? Was the change in my forms too successful?!

Everyone was very nice. And they all knew. It was meant to be gender affirming, and while I appreciated having my stated gender validated, and everyone was very very kind (I was emotional at a couple of bits because I was scared and they were so reassuring) I felt more at home in the ER where gender wasn't a factor.

Maybe I felt this because of brainworms. Maybe I felt this because I don't really see myself as a capital W Woman. It's hard to tease all of it apart.

like, for myself, i wander between i guess woman, woman-adjacent, and agender/wtf-is-gender-stop-asking-me-weird-questions.

Honestly, I'm not sure where I'm going to end up, but I think you're really getting into the direction I'm leaning here:

I guess to me its not an issue of being a woman, but rather an issue of performing womanhood coupled with being seen as a woman.

This 100%. It's hard to say I am "being" anything except me. What is being, anyway? All gender to me feels like a performance, I like acting a certain way, I like dressing a certain way, but that's not a statement of being. My true self is kinda meek, my voice apparently sounds really fem (according to Partner) even when I'm not trying (I never try anymore), my mannerisms are "cute," apparently. But that isn't a statement of being, I just kinda fit the role of "woman" more naturally.

Learning that agender people can still present fem has been a revelation. Maybe that's where I'm leaning, due to all of this.

Because its rooted in a class system concerned with perpetuating not just individuals but society, womanhood and manhood and any gender cannot exist in a vaccum or without being seen by others.

Yeah, agree.

Or I guess, it could be in the sense that one observes onesself? Like, thats what were doing when we apply labels to ourselves, were observing ourselves as we would another, just with the added benefit of knowing our internal states far better than anyone else could.

huh... i'm not sure why that seems so weird to me. maybe this is just a me thing, i have trouble with labels without specific criteria. Autism? I can check off the boxes. ADHD? Literally diagnosed. Gender? I have to decide for myself, and the labels are fuzzy, and I get to just pick whatever.

If I have to pick something, I will pick nothing, at least today, lol.

But the performative nature of identity is supee important imo, and to me explains a lot of my thought and feeling about who&how I am.

Yeah, that makes sense to me. I feel like my entire life has been a performance due to masking though, so right now I'm trying to go deeper and figure out what's beneath. The core identity of me, if I'm being real, that's beneath any concept of gender.

we should rather (imo) speak of it in a non-stative or otherwise transient way.

YES OMG THIS FR FR. I think this suits me better, "being" hurts my head. I'm "doing" woman at work (but more like "tomboy"), I'm "doing" non-binary femme online, I'm "doing" agender to my parents (this is a compromise for them), and sometimes I "do" ultra-femme at home. I never do anything on the male end anymore, but that's just me.

Gender fluidity can kind of be used this way, but because of our language its still spoken of in a stative manner, and using it in that way feels wrong, because its misappropriating a stative label to describe a nonstative experience.

I was literally just about to say that I don't really like the label "genderfluid" because it's too restrictive, myself.

reject markov chain interpretations of self, we cannot divide a person infinitely into a series of states, we are not a computer!

speak for yourself i'm rewriting myself in Rust

The missing part for me was that sex arises from gender, not the other way around.

totally, good point!

Like, imo we can re-sex ourselves.

I Changed My Sex Last Year? (idk this reminded me of another post)

For a binary example, a penis can be a deeply feminine sexual organ, a vagina can be likewise a deeply masculine sexual organ, depending on how we apply gender to it.

yeah, I won't get into this but I'm struggling with my born-in uh physical attributes at the moment as I plan for bottom surgery. How much is framing? How much is actual dysphoria? What if my particular discomfort is about the incongruity with the role I'm expected to play?

idk really how to conclude this

lol, just like me fr fr

ill close by saying gender is fucky and we should roam free among the hills and plains of it, not be confined to penns and fenced in areas.

agree, i don't want to put whatever's going on in here into a box anymore.

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