universally beloved girl

In the experiences of myself, as a nonbinary trans woman, and those of the many trans people I’ve talked to: we, as trans people, are generally pressured away from feminine identities as a whole. I wasn’t considering transfeminist theory when I wrote that original comment, but I believe that is the phenomenon I was speaking to.

I only rarely find that being nonbinary on its own to be a specifically oppressed identity vs being transgender. A transmasculine individual will often be pressured to be a man over being nonbinary, and to be a woman over being a man. A transfeminine individual, such as myself and such as I was implying Kris to be, will conversly be more often pressured to be nonbinary over being a woman, and to be a man over being nonbinary. If you account for the pressures upon transmasculine individuals to be women as being a result of transphobia, then the disparities between the experiences of transmasculine and transfeminine individuals speak to a prioritization of masculinity, not of binary identity.

Of course all of these statements come with the disclaimers that this all only speaks to experiences I have encountered, and that many people will have biases against nonbinary individuals specifically (such as transmedicalism’s push to have all trans people exhibit cisnormative identities). These biases, however, do not account for the bulk of social pressures, and more often than not form amongst transgender individuals to try to appease systems of power.

It's important to practice self-love, mew!

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