Controversial Enby

Especially people with cultural genders who don’t ID as nonbinary because there wasn’t a binary until colonizers enforced one

i love you. you’re hella valid.

Okay so after some discussion with others, and some embarrassing mistakes, I’ve decided to put up this CORRECTED version of the Galaxian Alignment system.

The reason for the correction was because not only did I get the demi- terms incorrect (and accidentally switched Galaxian with Celestian), but I had misunderstood the original intent of the coined system.

The description for Solarian is “In many cultures and religious systems, the sun is associated with masculinity, and male energy. As a result, a Solar Nonbinary Person, or Solarian, would be someone who has similarities in identity or experience with men. The term functions as a less easily abused form of ‘male aligned.’” 

The point is to give a replacement to ‘female-aligned,’ ‘male-aligned’ and ‘nonbinary-aligned’ statements, but it also has to do with the person’s experience. For example, while I identify as transmasculine, I have both female-aligned and male-aligned experiences in my day to day life, so I could identify as Eclipsian. However, because I’m transmasculine and I do not want to identify with female alignment in any capacity, I identify as Solarian. 

So there’s a number of ways you can use these terms for yourself. You can describe yourself under both your gender identity and your gender experience (which in my case are actually different), or you can go with just the one that best matches your experience or identity. Some even use this to acknowledge that, while they are of a certain identity, they still experience another alignment at the same time. 

It’s completely up to you.

But remember, these are not genders. These are alignment identifiers, minus the ‘male-’ or ‘female-’ or ‘nonbinary-’ spectrum alignment implications. So I’d tack this on my gender as “solarian trans man” if I was describing myself. 

Today I cried in the middle of Lush, but I had a valid reason.

stop 👏 appropriating 👏 the 👏 struggles 👏 trans 👏 people 👏 face 👏

dysphoria 👏 isn’t 👏 hating 👏 your 👏 body 👏 stop 👏 spreading 👏 misinformation 👏

stop 👏 grouping 👏 truscum 👏 with 👏 terfs 👏 when 👏 most 👏 truscum 👏 are 👏 trans 👏

it’s 👏 okay 👏 to 👏 be 👏 cis 👏 being 👏 trans 👏 isn’t 👏 a 👏 choice 👏 and 👏 it’s 👏 not 👏 fun 👏 cute 👏 or 👏 trendy 👏

We don’t need to define ourselves as masculine-aligned, feminine-aligned, or even unaligned! We are just who we are and that’s awesome!

So a real big shout out to all us folks out there who don’t use any alignment terminology, some people might try to force it on us, but that’s cause they are ignorant or hateful!

1) The Valid

- exclusively male- or female-aligned

- their social situation (relation to misogyny, orientations/attractions etc) fits the experiences of the gender they’re aligned with like hand in glove

- preferably also gay

2) The MOGAI

- anything non-aligned

- or multi-aligned, or not using alignments

- The Worst

microlabels give people the ability to make themselves more comfortable with a complex and personal part of who they are. microlabels cast light on experiences that could otherwise be ignored. microlabels helps people.

people who cry, “microlabels are hurting real trans/nb people!!!” or, “we need to focus our attention on real trans/nb people! they don’t deserve representation in discussions!” or, “those labels are made up! how could someone ever believe that?? ridiculous!” are wrong. that’s it. they’re wrong. they are:

1. recycling old rhetoric that has been used against them before.

2. ignoring labels that are real, just because they are strange or foreign or they don’t understand them.

3. ignorant and hateful and hypocritical.