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What I expect in the next 5-10 years:

- So much more Blaire White-style binary trans people that we won't know them by names anymore;

- Politicians and propagandists talking about "nonbinary ideology" specifically all across the world;

- Legislation that erases nonbinary people from the existence in order to "protect binary trans youth" or something like that;

- The narrative of the right shifting from "you'll always be your AGAB" and highlighting biological differences between men and women to talking about cultural significance of oppositional sexism and moral "unhealthiness" of androgyny;

- Even more talking about language, names pronouns and gender-neutral terms than we hear now;

- Minor signs of support that we get now, such as an "other" option in "choose your gender" questions, being taken away;

I absolutely agree that things can and probably will get worse for nonbinary people, that's not my issue with this post. My issue is that you're vaguely pitting binary and nonbinary trans people against each other when transphobes still currently see all of us as degenerate freaks. If you think that in five to ten years there will be talking points of "protecting binary trans youth" you're extremely naive and misinformed.

They want all of us gone. Legislation is affecting binary and nonbinary trans people right now. You cannot possibly think that this world is anywhere close to affirming binary trans people. Do not fearmonger like this to young nonbinary people who already have so much to worry about. Don't lie to them and act like they aren't being hurt right now by the same legislation and talking points affecting binary trans people.

When it comes to healthcare, trans men are among the most likely to avoid care because of mistreatment and were among the highest to have negative experiences with healthcare providers.

When it comes to hormone and transition related surgery denials, trans men are among the highest.

Presented without comment. (And acknowledging this is not separated by gender and those other than trans men are included in this bit)

Transmascs and nonbinary people are the ones who come in latest, with the most severe health conditions.

Transmascs and nonbinary people are the ones who neglect their healthcare because they have faced so much heinous transphobic medical abuse.

All trans folks suffer in healthcare, but it's transmascs and nonbinary people I have seen in particular, over and over again, dealing with serious and life-altering/life-threatening complications specifically because they have been abused so consistently and awfully by the medical system, in a way targeted DIRECTLY at their transmasculinity or transneutrality, that they have let otherwise treatable conditions progress to a point where they are actually dangerous.*

We need to talk about that. Transmascs and nonbinary folks need to be able to talk about that, without being shouted down by people who are not transmasc and nonbinary, who consistently downplay and dismiss their very real and dangerous suffering.

If you cannot accept that a different minority group may, in fact, suffer comparably - or even more than you - in specific ways, you are, in fact, the problem. This is your wake-up call - it's time to do some soul searching. It is NOT GOOD PRAXIS to argue endlessly with transmascs and nonbinary people about what language they are 'allowed' to use. Start campaigning to support your trans brothers and siblings, rather than trying to shut them down when they discuss the very real oppression they face.

Talk about how most of us can never legally transition because even if legal transition is an option it's typically restricted to the binary.

Talk about how even non-binary gender markers which seem like the solution actually force us into a double bind of either misgendering ourselves constantly or outing ourselves constantly.

Talk about how there is no way to "pass" as non-binary and that the only way to be stealth is to be closeted one way or the other.

Talk about how "non-binary" as a term was meant to be an umbrella term for a myriad of gender identities but was forcibly homogenized into one "third gender" by others.

Talk about how the MOGAI movement which sought to give names to the wide breadth of gender identity and experience was relentlessly mocked both by transphobes and other trans people alike, abandoned by our own communities because our identities were "too weird."

Talk about the slur "theyfab" and its misogynistic and transmisogynistic usage. Talk about how it contributes to the rampant erasure of amab non-binary people and treats all non-binary people as "whiny little wome- i mean afabs."

What health outcomes does the trans research gap for nonbinary and transmasculine people create? Could negative experiences in schooling be a worsening factor on this gap?

If you are a transmasculine and/OR nonbinary person, please fill out my survey!

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I am NOT letting you leave this in the tags prev it is so true. Non binary people cant pass because there is no way to pass for us. Passing as ANY GENDER is getting misgendered because it means others assuming we're binary people, and we're not.

One of the first feelings of dysphoria I got was the feeling of "everyone else will perceive me as a binary gender first and there is nothing I can do about it" and I wanted to stop existing at all, to stop having a body and stop being perceived so no one would dictate my identity for me.

Non binary people arent taken seriously on our own oppression, in talking about trans issues we're an afterthought, because if they cant categorize us then they refuse to talk about us. Binary people, cis and trans, get annoyed when we add onto a conversation with our non binary perspective, when we ask to be included in their talks about trans liberation and fighting against gender essentialism. We complain too much and we're too weird and too cringe, we cant use terms like transfem and transmasc without everyone assuming we're basically binary trans people, and binary trans people are so busy pitting transfem and transmasc as opposites while also saying "oh but we include non binary people!" No you dont, your inclusion is only for monogender enben whose gender is static and aligned with the binary. Because talking about only the existance of transfem and transmasc as two opposite exclusive sides is exorsexist as hell.

And dont get me started on how we dont fucking have LANGUAGE, there are so many languages that have no pronouns or neutral words to refer to people, existing in your native country means being misgendered.