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Conform to sex-based or gender-based stereotypes because it’s easier

Are gate-keeped from being “actually non-binary” because they don’t present “androgynous enough”

Present more femininely

Present more masculinly

Present as your birth sex because it’s easier

Don’t understand their gender either or lack the words to explain it

Have mental disabilities / disorders which cause a lot of struggles

Must have the energy to get up everyday and present the way they feel because otherwise they’ll feel shitty all day and have no energy for anything else

Don’t know if they can call themselves transgender because it always feels like they’re starting a fight or they’re not trans enough

Go by their birth name

Use an average name over their birth name

Choose not average names names like “Twig / Pebble / Stick / etc”

Use names of characters they kin as their name

Don’t know what the hell to call their sexuality

Use neopronouns because they don’t have gender-neutral pronouns in their language

Use neopronouns because they and its and he and she just don’t feel right

Gender isn’t well known

Don’t know if they experience dysphoria and say they know it’s written to be a disorder and they don’t want to self-diagnose

Know they experience dusphoria despite it being a disorder

Are scared to say they don’t know if they have dysphoria because they don’t want to get yelled at

Don’t exactly know what dysphoria feels like because they don’t feel it in suckish extremities that others do and describe

Don’t talk about their dysphoria because it’s not well understood about their gender and how dysphoria works with them and it’s different for everyone and it’s just exhausting

Feel gender is a private matter and will fill out their assigned gender on papers because they don’t feel everyone needs to know

Don’t remember note their gender as something that makes them oppressed because they face many types of oppression

Subtly do things that note their gender, whether it’s making bracelets with the flag, or wearing specific shoes for those who’s gender varies, etc etc

Don’t have the wardrobe to present how they want to

Don’t have the money to present how they want to (including money for haircuts!!)

Experience hair dysphoria but don’t say it out loud because it seems like such an “easy fix” but there’s reasons why you can’t get your hair styled the way you want

Are out to their parents

Aren’t out to their parents

Have marginalized genders

Use non-binary as an umbrella term

Use non-binary as a specific term

Are told “oh you’re probably x” when you describe your gender but you know you aren’t x because some part just doesn’t fit right and it’s hard to put it into words

Need someone to help them figure out the right term

Align mostly but not fully with their assigned gender at birth

Don’t know what they are

Do know what they are

Are confused

Are not confused

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